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...York City Ballet is on a red hot streak. It has a dozen young dancers who are crowding the established stars. And it also has Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet's reigning superstar. Last week the company gave the world premiere of a showcase for some of the explosive talent: Jerome Robbins' The Four Seasons, set to snippets of Verdi ballet music, most of it from I Vespri Siciliani. There is nothing very deep here, but the work is a flashy hit. Ballet, like opera, is a virtuoso art. There are a lot of high Cs for the young dancers...
Robbins takes a light flip through the calendar. The beginning is too coy: girls dance in the snow, shivering and pushing each other to keep warm. This is not the kind of joke that the City Ballet corps can manage without making it look like a snowslide off a roof. Then, however, Robbins presents Heather Watts with a crystalline gift: a variation with fast échappés and arctic-still balances that show her strong technique...
Spring is a lyrical, intricate pas de deux for Kyra Nichols and Daniel Duell (who are husband and wife). It is the surest, most elegant part of the ballet. Summer, danced by Stephanie Saland and Bart Cook, is brief, languid and dreamy-it ends, in fact, with the couple dozing. Before that, however, they have hovered and swayed like goldenrod in their burnished costumes; this is a new and seemingly airborne partnership...
...skater." says John Curry firmly." I believe that the word skater has the same value as the word dancer." In fact, Curry is both an ice skater who dances and a ballet dancer who ice skates. The title of his new show, which opened at Manhattan's Felt Forum last week: Ice Dancing...
...prospect of a fluidity and motion denied them on an ordinary dance floor. "John is showing that it's possible to do something on ice that's never been done before," is the enthusiastic comment of Bonnefous, one of the lead dancers of the New York City Ballet...