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...York City Ballet shows off its proud heritage "We are after all the Stravinsky company," said New York City Ballet Choreographer John Taras last week. The company was in the midst of its second Stravinsky festival, held on the tenth anniversary of the triumphant first one (as well as the centennial of the composer's birth). There were doubters who pointed out the obvious: the new celebration could only be a coda to 1972 because the best scores have already been used, and City Ballet's master choreographer George Balanchine, 78, is no longer quite so active...
...modern classics (among them Apollo, Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...
...trois for three very strong dancers, Merrill Ashley, Sean Lavery and Mel Tomlinson. Sleek, vigorous, boldly plastic, it is a kind of message to portentous choreographers like Glen Tetley and Choo San Goh that in their lengthy constructs one might discover a really good six-minute ballet...
...anybody was born to dance, it was Tune. His father serviced oil rigs, his mother was part Shawnee, and they met at a dance. Of course. Tommy was only five when he started dance classes. "I absolutely loooved ballet," he says, generously giving the verb four or five more syllables than the dictionary. "I was actually quite good...
Still, Tune was forced to admit that with his body he would never make it as a ballet dancer, and he began looking in the direction of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly rather than Nijinsky. When he saw a local production of The King and I, he narrowed his sights still further-to Broadway. He studied drama at the University of Texas at Austin and after graduating in 1961 turned north toward Times Square. He missed out on several parts because of his height, but finally got into the chorus of Irma La Douce. Some of the other shows...