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Just now, the sex star has another priority: breast-feeding an eight-pound girl named Alexandra, the first child of Lange and Mikhail Baryshnikov, artistic director of American Ballet Theater. When he heard the news two weeks ago, Baryshnikov, who was in Buffalo with A.B.T., flew back to Manhattan to see his daughter. "She's beautiful," says Lange, 31, of Alexandra, who was delivered by natural childbirth. "I was enormously proud that she came into the world naturally. But then my baby is bright and alert. She made it easy." Lange seemed almost as pleased to talk about...
That evening Thatcher and her husband Denis were guests of honor at the Reagans' first state dinner. It was a glittering affair complete with strolling musicians and a postprandial ballet performance that illustrated Nancy Reagan's formal taste in entertainment. The guest list was kept relatively small (94 people) in line with the First Lady's desire that state dinners should not be mob gatherings of strangers...
There were plenty of hints, but no real answer, as the Met staged its first new production of a season shortened by labor disputes. It was a trio of French works, with the umbrella title of Parade. The idea of presenting Satie's slight ballet Parade, Poulenc's absurdist opera buffa Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges came from Met Production Adviser John Dexter. The common theme was not World War I (though with effort all the pieces can be connected to it) but the devices...
Still, the evening was a bit of a puzzlement. Even though the Ravel was a success, why does a major opera house try to produce dance, a project like Parade, when the American Ballet Theater will occupy its very premises in two months' time and George Balanchine reigns just across Lincoln Center Plaza...
Balanchine was also right. The score is wonderful, and Martins made nice dances. The debut last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center drew an uncommonly long, lusty ovation from the hard-to-please City Ballet crowd. The applause underscored both Martins' arrival as a choreographer to watch very carefully and a happy addition to the City Ballet's glittering, almost sinfully lush repertory...