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...perhaps the most noteworthy offering of the month is not drama but dance, as MIT, in conjunction with the recently-formed Boston Repertory Ballet, presents A Week of Ballet, culminating in a performance at MIT's Kresge Auditorium at 8 on Saturday, January 28. The evening will feature special guest artists Lydia Abarca and Ronald Perry of the Dance Theater of Harlem in pas de deux from the virtuoso "Le Corsaire" and the Balanchine-Stravinsky "Agon," as well as the Repertory company in Antony Tudor's "Soiree Musicale," Director Samuel Kurkjian's snappy "Speed Zone", and the world premiere...
...narrative begins to forge the complex network of bonds entangling the rest of the principals in the movie. The story unfolds as Emma invites Deedee's eldest daughter Emilia (Browne), an 18-year-old ballet student bursting with raw talent and innocent sexuality, catches Emma's eye and is promptly invited to join the company. Deedee leaves the household and dance school in the capable hands of her husband and accompanies Emilia to New York, intent on supervising her climb to stardom. The impressionable protege soon takes a strong liking to her mentor Emma (who happens to be Emilia...
...short-lived affair with Yuri (Baryshnikov), the rakish Russian who is the crowning jewel of the company's impressive array of dancers. Yuri and Emilia consummate the relationship in one of the best scenes of The Turning Point; shot in deep blues and purples, the lovemaking is accompanied by ballet music, and appropriately enough, Emilia marks their climax with a ballet gesture, forming a graceful arch with her outstretched arms...
...Ballet is already experiencing heretofore unknown popularity in America, and The Turning Point will further this trend with its generous use of filmed rehearsals and excerpts from some of the genre's most famous compositions. But cineastes who have no special fondness for ballet will derive considerable pleasure from the plot's many twists and the consistently slick performances Ross culls from his cast. The Turning Point may not represent a departure from the highly commercial repertoire of films bearing Ross's stamp, but what he lacks in vision he makes up for in pure craft...
...flow freely backstage between the Rodgers and the older faces in the company. The joyous encounter between Deedee and Emma takes a bitter turn when Deedee contrasts the varied fates that have befallen them following their climactic competition for the same career-launching part in the ballet Anna Karenina. Emma reminds Deedee, "You got pregnant," and the housewife-instructor retorts, "And you got 19 curtain calls...