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...pretty hand to work on that schedule," Blumberg said But like everything she you get used to it" The dance couple works more on acting and presentation. Seibert and Blumberg do their own choreography with some assistance from an American Ballet members and their coach in London...
...larky midnight madness, have assembled for their annual ball. Choreographer Gillian Lynne has superbly schooled her topflight troupe in clawing, stretching, rubbing and comic feline posturing, yet no single dancer convincingly turns into a cat. Lynne is a fluent choreographer, but uninventive. She relies on three main modes-jazz, ballet and acrobatics-which in reiteration become anticlimactic. When a huge boot clunks down in the middle of the chorus in the first big dance number, the touch is deliciously clever but later seems like a prophetic critique...
DIED. Walter Terry, 69, author, lecturer and critic, first with the Boston Herald and later with the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Review, who championed ballet and modern dance for almost half a century; of a heart attack; in New York City...
DIED. Valerie Bettis, 62, mesmerizing modern dancer and dynamic, unconventional choreographer; of a heart attack; in New York City. The first modern dancer to choreograph for a major ballet company (Virginia Sampler in 1947 for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), she also worked for Broadway and Hollywood, bringing back to the dance a concept of "total theater," the combined use of singing, dancing and acting in such ballets as As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner's novel, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a scorching version of Tennessee Williams' play...
...Callahan. "The games themselves don't mean much, but a flash of perfection does something to the spirit that is worthwhile. People don't watch sport just to pass the time. They bring a passion to it. The best of sport is a kind of art, a ballet with its own virtuoso performances...