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...opening night of New York City Ballet's 40th anniversary last week made for a fine old beano. For one thing, it inaugurated the company's ambitious American Music Festival, three weeks of patriotic programming involving 21 new ballets, five specially commissioned scores, with a total of 41 U.S. composers featured. For another, the evening had a real family feeling that bound the company and its intensely loyal following. Both Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, the troupe's senior ballerinas, appeared in special numbers, and both danced with a radiance and glamour that brought the audience to its feet...
Onstage, City Ballet justified both the sentiment and the celebration. Jerome Robbins' brilliant Glass Pieces seemed as sleek as it did at its premiere five years ago. McBride swept through George Balanchine's The Man I Love looking half her 45 years. Company Director Peter Martins came out of retirement to honor his ideal partner, Suzanne Farrell, 42, who had a new plastic hip, performing with her in his version of Sophisticated Lady, set to the Duke Ellington song. The finale, danced like fireworks by Kyra Nichols, came from Balanchine's ebullient Stars and Stripes. It was just like...
...measure repealed by the Chirac government after it assumed power in 1986. Chirac promises to continue selling off industries nationalized by Mitterrand in the early part of his seven-year term. While Mitterrand opposes such a move, even he no longer wants to pursue what he calls the "ballet" of renationalizing firms made private under Chirac...
Most vulnerable of all are ballet dancers. "They are like Thoroughbred racehorses," says Dr. William Hamilton, who is affiliated with New York's Miller Institute, one of the most comprehensive of the new clinics. Falls and poor landings from jumps can cause sudden injuries, including sprained backs and snapped foot bones. "The fifth metatarsal breaks like a chicken bone," says Hamilton, orthopedic surgeon for the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater. "You can hear it in the audience when it happens." Overuse and chronic trauma produce inflammations of tendons and stress fractures of foot and leg bones. Many...
Often the best remedy, but the one artists dread most, is to stop performing for a while. "Rest is a four-letter word for the ballet dancer," declares Hamilton. "For the musician," says Dr. Michael Charness, a member of the University of California clinic in San Francisco, "playing is more than their job. It's an emotional outlet." Are artists more vulnerable to psychological problems than most? "Performing is a very exhilarating and draining experience," says Dr. Richard Lederman, who heads a program at the Cleveland Clinic. Others observe that because training usually demands immersion at an early age, many...