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...Steelers. Swann's way was honed in dance studios, where he spent 14 years learning moves. He displays his skill on Omnibus, the 1950s magazine-format show that ABC is reviving this spring. In one segment, with Hoofer Gene Kelly beating time, Swann joins Choreographer Twyla Tharp and Ballet Star Peter Martins in a Tharp dance about a wide receiver. Said Swann after his off-the-field patterns: "My thighs hurt...
...eminent American sculptor. This fine-boned and unaged man, with a grip as tough as an old Maine lobster's, has expanded his work over an extraordinary range of images, media and purposes in the course of a 50-year career. Whether he is engaged with ballet and theater sets or monumental fountains, pieces for giant plazas or intimate playgrounds, huge sun discs fabricated from carved stone or diminutive wood sculptures and paper lamps, Noguchi's touch has never ceased to be subtle, precise and informed. He is entitled to be seen, in a time characterized by minor...
...work is good, it will always stay in repertory; it won't be discarded, like most musicals, after two or three years. And if a ballet fails, you can always think about it and try it again another year. Economic considerations make that impossible on Broadway...
...time and money are running out. "It's like those descriptions of galaxies spinning apart," he says. "Everyone is going a million miles an hour in opposite directions." His opinion is shared by his mentor, Balanchine, who once created dances for musicals (including the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet for Rodgers and Hart's 1936 On Your Toes) but has not been back to Broadway in nearly 30 years...
Recalls Robbins: "Once Mr. Balanchine and I were discussing a young choreographer at City Ballet, and I suggested that he get experience doing musicals. Balanchine laughed and said, 'No, they wouldn't have him. Broadway is tougher than...