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From Balanchine to Merce Cunningham, choreographers invited Taylor to join their groups. For six years he danced mostly with Graham but in 1961 went on his own for good. A foe of ballet's artifice, he was inspired by the city's population: "They are standing, squatting, sitting everywhere like marvelous ants or bees, and their moves and stillnesses are ABCs that if given a proper format could define dance in a new way." Now his privations really began, and he records them with deep feeling and baleful gusto. Home was usually a wretched flat, cold water or no water...
...Basically I did everything a kid did," she says. "I took ballet and piano, but tennis was something I could do well, compared to the other things, so I sort of fell into...
Frances Gary, a friend of Vina's whose husband also worked at NYU, recalls that the pair "used to come to New York City [from North Carolina] every other weekend for opera, ballet, and Broadway shows. They were a very cultural couple...
...Sleeping Beauty offers a homely advantage to a ballet troupe: there is something in it for everybody. While on tour, A.B.T. switched the various roles around frequently. As Prince Desire, Beauty shows off a young Argentine performer of enormous promise, Julio Bocca, 20. Handsome, ardent, with a big light jump, he gave dramatic strength to the often thankless part. As the first of the Auroras, Susan Jaffe was able to drop much of her cool languor to give a sprightly performance. For one of the Lilac Fairies, MacMillan dipped into the corps to find Jennet Zerbe, 22, a tall, ample...
...American Ballet Theater opens its New York City season with a light and lively production of the classic Sleeping Beauty...