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When Morris joined Mikhail Barishnikov along with a small group of renowned modern and ballet dancers in the White Oak Dance Project, Dance Umbrella hosted the premiere performance. Now Morris works with Dance Umbrella six weeks out of every year as an artist-in-residence...
...from its past. "These fragments I have shored against my ruins," wrote T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922), the poem that most typifies its age. A similar attitude prevailed among a number of revolutionary artists: Picasso in art, Stravinsky in music, Joyce in literature, Balanchine in ballet and Mies Van Der Rohe in architecture. Each of these men mastered the techniques of his trade and then saw fit to wrench old forms into previously unheard-of shapes...
...many of his appraisals, as well as his choices, seem blandly conventional. Some, in fact, are so woefully inadequate as to suggest that the author relied entirely on secondary sources rather than on firsthand knowledge. In a muddled chapter on dance, George Balanchine, who revolutionized the vocabulary of classical ballet, gets scarcely more space than two more limited choreographers, Leonide Massine and Michel Fokine. The paragraph on Mr. B. mentions none of his landmark ballets but cites instead his glitzy dances for films like I Was an Adventuress. Ignored also are Balanchine's two greatest contemporaries: Antony Tudor...
Four of Xuchipilli's members danced previouslywith Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, a Harvard- basedMexican folk dance group that helped bringXuchipilli to the festival...
...looks on her childhood as privileged. Her mother, a nurse and a Head Start teacher, was a strong woman ("Still is. She's got her foibles, but she's amazing") who would say, "Get on the bus, go hear the Leonard Bernstein concert, go see the children's ballet, go to the museum . . ." And there were old movies on TV, "though I didn't know they were old; I liked the idea of seeing Clark Gable in the war on one channel, and then switching, and he'd be riding a horse...