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Temperature's rising on late night TV, and the young fellow with the thermometer -- oh, it's a microphone -- is Ron Reagan, former ballet dancer, occasional journalist and permanent son of the 40th President of the U.S. Gipperphiles will tune in to THE RON REAGAN SHOW to see the host twit Kitty Kelley, "who we know applies only the highest journalistic standards to her work." Gipperphobes will be pleased to hear Ron bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw- shucks ingenuity tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both...
...centerpiece of the Royal Ballet's current U.S. tour is a production of SWAN LAKE that in most respects is a genial mess. In the famous "white act," the enchanted maidens dance around in what appears to be silvery decor left over from their Christmas party, all tinsel and discarded trees. But the company does have a genuine Swan Queen: the bewitching French ballerina SYLVIE GUILLEM. At 26, she is the reigning star of international ballet, and it is easy to see why. Tall and leggy, she seems to have double-jointed hips -- her ordinary kick is stopped only...
...Ailey first met in 1965, when she stumbled over him while rushing off-stage after an unsuccessful audition for a television special. Although the famed choreographer Agnes de Mille had discovered her and given the young dancer her first professional role, in a piece created for the American Ballet Theater, Jamison found that her height (5 ft. 10 in.), dark coloring and close-cropped hair made it difficult to find other jobs in a world that prized petite, fair women with flowing tresses. Ailey, however, recognized her special talent and kindred spirit and invited her to join his company. Their...
...U.S.S.R., and even the rival Kirov Opera of Leningrad is showing new vitality, "they lack the gusto. They do too little, too slowly. Such immobility is simply impermissible these days." Critics take the dilapidated condition of the Bolshoi Theater (which also houses the equally straitened Bolshoi Ballet) as symbolic. Spots have darkened its walls; danger signs hang here and there; the sculpture of a chariot-borne Apollo on its roof stands within a protective cage awaiting repairs. THE BOLSHOI BUILDING ((IS)) ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE, warned a headline in the Moscow newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta...
...year ago last week, all Soviet musicians, actors and ballet dancers halted their performances for five minutes to protest what Culture Minister Nikolai Gubenko called the "tragic" state of Soviet culture. In the year since then, nothing has greatly changed or improved...