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...music," says Rock Critic Greil Marcus. "She's going to end up a big movie star. There's nothing wrong with that." As the eldest daughter in a large family whose mother died young, Madonna has always seemed to be looking for a way out. She studied dance, tried ballet and, by the time she left home in her late teens, had already starred in her first movie. It was a Super-8 project directed by an eighth-grade classmate in which Madonna had an egg cooked on her tummy. She can currently be seen, under somewhat more professional auspices...
...beginning, we just played games, like snake, cool cat and fox," said 10-year-old Jessica from the Agassiz School. "We learned to wriggle like a snake, stretch like a cool cat, and jump like a fox. In the show, me and my friends do ballet barrels. We pretend we're barrels and puff up our cheeks and stuff like that...
...minimal theatrical trappings: his only accessories are music, which includes both recognizable classical pieces and simple recordings of nose; and lights, which either spotlight his antics or swirl around him to create confusion. In most of the skits, however, Marceau works solo on a blackened stage, clad in white ballet shoes, bodysuit and vest with a facefull of chalk...
...careers, but in Eight Lines, the two women have impersonal, difficult parts that seem to evaporate. The men are better served, Lavery with wonderfully weighted balances, Andersen with quicksilver darts and turns. This has been Andersen's best season since he arrived five years ago from the Royal Danish Ballet. He has moved through a wide range of repertory looking very much at home yet utterly distinctive: elegant, slightly exotic, confidently musical. As usual Robbins has chosen his ensemble well, mostly from the company's younger dancers, and he has set them blazing on a formidable allegro course...
With brilliant decor and alien music, Robbins gives this ballet a fresh-as- tomorrow look, but the choreography blends fairly closely with two other strong Robbins works now in repertory, Piano Pieces and the brief Andantino. And as always, Robbins nods to the dances of his mentor George Balanchine, particularly swift, sharply etched Rubies and the propulsive Agon. He is experimenting with a new kind of music, and how far he will go is unclear. But in the meantime he puts on a hell of a show...