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...photographer. Otherwise the San Francisco marriage of Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 35, and Electronics Executive Edward Karkar, 43, came off like a perfect pas de deux. Among the guests: Dancers Alexander Minz and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, like Makarova, had once belonged to the Soviet Union's Kirov Ballet. The bride, who had been married prior to her 1970 defection from the Kirov, did not bother with a honeymoon this time around. One day after the ceremonies, she began rehearsals for a performance of La Sylphide in Los Angeles...
Less than seven years ago, Arthur Mitchell was performing with New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, the first black principal dancer in an American company. His fame grew as he partnered all of Balanchine's great ballerinas, from Maria Tallchief to Suzanne Farrell. Then in April 1968, after the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, he decided that it was time to do something for black people. His first move was to approach the eminent American dance teacher Karel Shook, then ballet master of the Netherlands National Ballet...
...contrast, a gag which works far better involves King Lear's obsession with popcorn. A supposedly dignified, elderly figure running around shouting "Pop, pop, Jiffy Pop," is ridiculous enough to be funny, and the Act II opener, "The Popcorn Ballet," which features men with silken flame neckties trying to pop female characters dressed as resistant kernels of corn, is one of the most excitingly choreographed and outrageous numbers in the show...
...joke would wear thin ^ very quickly if the humor were not based on a sound knowledge of classical ballet. Working with a cartoonist's bold strokes, the Trock choreographers can come uncannily close to the original steps of the ballets they spoof. Peter Anastos, 28, (whose stage name is Olga Tchi-kaboumskaya) slyly transforms New York City Ballet's daisy chain into a spaghetti of arms and legs in his parody of Balanchine's Concerto Barocco. "Everyone who has seen Balanchine recognizes his chain of dancers weaving in and out and around each other," says Anastos...
Dazzling Lifts. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is an offspring of Manhattan's original "drag" dance troupe, Larry Ree's Trockadero Gloxinia Ballet, in which Bassae, Anastos and Taylor were members. Ironically they defected because Ree refused to permit them to take male roles. "I love partnering," says Natch Taylor, "so I was fired. Let a brilliant solo technician dazzle the audience with fancy footwork, let me dazzle with my lifts...