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...room brick school has an "extended day" program enabling working parents to drop their children off as early as 7:30 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m. After regular classes, special instruction is provided in ballet, gymnastics, cooking and other fields. Amy stays late three days a week for Spanish lessons...
Died. Yuri Soloviev, 36, one of the world's leading ballet dancers; of a gunshot wound (apparently by his own hand); outside Leningrad. Soloviev's exuberant grace and brilliant interpretation of classic roles won him fans not only in the U.S.S.R. but in the West, where he toured with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. Although he lacked the passionate dynamism of Rudolf Nureyev or Mikhail Baryshnikov's transparent, effortless style, some critics believed that he was fully the equal of those famed Soviet emigres as a premier danseur...
...dancer, a pause in mid-career often has the effect of a cool breeze on a warm souffle: poof. But American Ballet Theater's Cynthia Gregory, rather than wilting during nearly a year's absence from the stage, has bounced back radiating warmth and vitality...
Gregory retired a year ago at 29 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). A shy, painstaking woman, she found the offstage demands of stardom nearly unbearable, especially after her marriage to A.B.T. Dancer Terry Orr collapsed. The dance world was stunned. Gregory is considered the finest American-trained ballet dancer, with a pure, elegant style that makes music and choreography flow together...
...manager, in Pacifica Palisades, Calif. Living quietly near the ocean, she swam daily, sketched seascapes and baked cakes. For seven months she took no classes. Injuries from 14 years of non-stop dancing melted away. Ounces, however started to add up to pounds. A sentimental visit to her former ballet teacher, Carmelita Maracci, easily hooked her on dancing again. She credits her husband, a onetime record producer whose circle includes film makers and folk musicians, with opening her horizon. Never again, vows Cynthia, will she permit dance to consume her life. Says she: "I don't want to spend...