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...Shaker Heights, Ohio where "knee-jerk liberal" attitudes protected her from "blatant" exposure to racism. Her father is a doctor, her mother has a masters degree and is a homemaker. Being Black presented no disadvantages for Wilkerson. The children took every kind of lesson they wanted--Wilkerson studied ballet, gymnastics and skating--and they were "expected to bring home...
...efforts to pursue dance her freshman year met with opposition. "For a dancer it was a completely unsupportive environment," she says. Dismayed by the lack of technical ability of the dancers in the official Radcliffe-Harvard dance company, she found release in her classes at the Cambridge School of Ballet. The hours spent at classes, however, contributed to a growing sense that she was "existing outside the University...
...imperious Rajah's daughter Gamzatti (Cynthia Harvey) are rivals for the love of the great warrior Solor (Anthony Dowell), who pledges himself to Nikiya over a sacred fire. Later the Rajah chooses Solor to marry his daughter. If this sounds like Aida, it is. In the ballet, both women are murderous. Gamzatti, who plants a deadly snake among flowers given to the dancer, is the successful killer, but Nikiya has ectoplasmic revenge. Her spirit appears first in a lyrical vision to Solor, and again to break up his wedding (and decimate the temple for good measure). If some...
...opening night the production glowed. The corps de ballet - more the heroine than either Nikiya or Gamzatti- danced the "Kingdom of the Shades" scene with technical purity and a moving, almost votive, concentration...
MARRIED. Edward Villella, 43, longtime star of the New York City Ballet; and Linda Carbonetto, 31, Canadian national figure skating champion in 1969, Ice Capades performer, now a figure skating teacher; both for the second time; in New York City...