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DIED. John Gilpin, 53, celebrated dancer with London's Festival Ballet in the 1950s, who on July 28 became the third husband of Monaco's Princess Antoinette; of a heart attack; in London. A dynamic artist whose striking good looks enhanced his roles in such classic ballets as Le Spectre de la Rose and Giselle, Gilpin served as artistic director of the Festival Ballet from 1962 to 1965. He met Antoinette, the sister of Prince Rainier, at a Monte Carlo performance...
...organized a daylong festival to thank Miami for its support and to display the talents of the boatlift's artists. Said Choreographer and Dancer Pedro Pablo Peña, who washed up on the shores of Key West in a shrimper and now directs the 14-member Creation Ballet in Coral Gables: "This is the other face of Mariel. It shows we are succeeding and contributing to this country...
...work out a sequence of ten or so moves to take him up an overhang hundreds of feet in the air, then discover that the route cannot be forced any farther. Without delay, before his muscles begin to tire and shake, he must then perform the ten-move ballet perfectly in reverse order. "You can't forget the fact that you're right next to the edge all the time," he says. "If you make any kind of mistake, you're going...
After playing the dying young ballerina Niki in last year's cinema flop Six Weeks, Katherine Healy, 14, might have been hesitant about dancing again in public. Not a bit of it. The New York City native was back on her toes most recently at the celebrated International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, where she became only the second U.S.-born gold medalist. The first, in 1974, was Fernando Bujones, 28, who is now an established American Ballet Theater star. Healy has been rumored to be interested in A.B.T. too, but she says it is premature to make...
Although opera and ballet have yet to take firm hold, visiting companies invariably draw large audiences. At year's end, there are so many performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that people refer to the annual flood as "Ninth pollution." During the 1982 holiday season it was performed some 100 times across the country. By any standard, it seems, Western classical music is thriving in Japan, as much a part of the culture today as the ancient lutes and zithers...