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Tennis is incompatible with bloc politics. Its stars are individualists with styles and temperaments as distinctive as those of ballet dancers. Most important, there are millions of dollars and oodles of glamour to be had on the international tour...
RECOVERING. Mikhail Baryshnikov, 37, Soviet-born premier danseur and artistic director of the American Ballet Theater; from surgery on his right knee, which was operated on in 1983 and reinjured last month during a 29-city U.S. tour with his own small summer traveling troupe; in New York City. He is expected to be sidelined at least through September...
Dekle, who danced with a professional ballet troupe during high school, says she "can't wait to perform at Harvard...
...Diver Greg Louganis, 25, however much the layman thinks it looks like flying. "It should look effortless," observes Louganis. "The 'poetic' suggestiveness comes only from strength and how strong the jump is." If that sounds like a dancer talking, it is -- in an interview in the current issue of Ballet Review. Diving and dance "complement each other," says the Olympic gold medalist. "The same type of muscles are involved." Lately he has also been concentrating on starting a new career as an actor. "It's not something I dreamed up one Olympic morning," says Louganis, who has studied acting...
Baryshnikov left the cosseted life at Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, where artistic challenges were rare and cultural politics strangulating. "I didn't have the patience, and I'm not smart enough," he says. "I love that country and those people, but I am an individualist, and there it is a crime...