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...Brien, 50: "I like her innate grand manner. I think she will grow up to be one of the wonderful, impressive ballerinas-like the great old girls, only without being bulky." David Howard, a teacher who has worked with Darci and many other top dancers, has a ballet master's unblinking eye. Says he: "She has good legs, good training and inborn strength. She is a little wide in the shoulders. She will have to learn to camouflage it and create a softer illusion." He questions whether Darci is climbing too fast: "There is not enough patience today. Many...
That, of course, is what show biz calls star quality. Darci's precocious fame is not without precedent: at City Ballet, Patricia McBride, Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland all came to prominence at about her age. Still the clamor for Darci has surprised the company-which promotes its repertory rather than its stars-and Balanchine. He has forbidden interviews with her. Darci's career is only a few months old, yet her parents are already beset by promoters who are seeking endorsements. That's how fast a new sunbeam travels...
...sexiness. But Darci is a very young princess, and the other quality is still beyond her. Nor did it help when, on the second night, a bodice seam split down to the waist. Darci went right on with the aplomb that is already her signature, swimming happily through the ballet's subaqueous rhythms, and looking like what she is, a California girl transfigured...
Within City Ballet, Darci Kistler has been watched closely since her first school workshop performance. During rehearsals for her final student appearance in Swan Lake last May, she had a hip injury, but danced "full out" the whole time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...
Darci's grit-required of dedicated ballet dancers-showed up early. Her father is a successful Riverside, Calif., doctor, her mother a former French teacher. Her four big brothers were all wrestling champions. Just to keep pace, recalls a friend, "she had to be one tough little girl." The family supported her ambitions, driving her regularly to a studio two hours away in Beverly Hills. Three years ago, about the time that the decision to go to New York had to be made, her mother took her to a high school football game and told her, "Darci...