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...dusty grand piano. The costume mistress lugged five popcorn costumes--27 pounds worth of shredded foam rubber. "Don't miss the best part," everyone advised. About ten minutes into Act Two they hurled themselves into those costumes in the back lobby of the theater for the popcorn ballet. The lightening quick change was an art--wigs off, costumes off, leotards bare, popcorns on; each actress had a dresser to help her and each reached her mark just barely on time. They grabbed their "shells" as two actors rushed by to grab "flames." The audience went wild. Four minutes later...
Turning around and around and around with only the slightest trace of ballet training, the boy refuses to sweat. He whirls on a small round platform set eight feet above the crowd, nearly nude, brandishing a large glimmering orange cape. A dark oval beauty-mark is stencilled on the front of his thigh. He thinks about how hot it is under the lights. Up here on the smooth plaster cylinder he is safe; it is his turf, aloof, contained. Despite the energy of his grinding movements, no emotion glides over his soft face and glazed eyes. Perhaps he imagines that...
...know a lot of people, but in this field you can't have too many friends," noted Ballet Dancer Fernando Bujones back in 1974. "To really trust someone, you have to be careful." Some of Bujones' colleagues probably wish they had been more careful as well. Florida-born Fernando, who turns 21 this week, has spent most of his time recently serving as supersubstitute to a trio of ailing defectors from Russia's Kirov Ballet: Mikhail Baryshnikov, who injured an ankle before his Toronto performance in La Sylphide; Rudolf Nureyev, who missed his Los Angeles production...
...Conductor Ernest Ansermet. "Stravinsky and MiIhaud used to visit often," Abravanel recalls. "I played piano four-hands with Stravinsky as a lark." He went to Berlin to study with a brilliant young composer named Kurt Weill. In 1933 both men fled Nazi Germany for Paris. There, Abravanel became a ballet conductor, performing the premiere of the Balanchine-Brecht-Weill ballet-with-song, The Seven Deadly Sins...
...Tahiti. Cornell loved the idea of Europe but never went there. The house was crammed with cartons, dossiers, packets of old photos, clippings, hoarded books, gewgaws and boxes; these constituted the world in which he traveled. His only public gestures were occasional exhibitions and cover designs for the ballet magazine Dance Index. Self-promotion was unthinkable to him. Cornell always seemed an emissary from a different world, today more so than ever...