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...dozen Californians who have gone through mastectomies have a livelier outlook on life. Thanks to a program of dance therapy developed by Diana Welch, 41, an artist-in-residence at the University of Santa Clara, they have been able to take advantage of the graceful, flowing action of classical ballet to regain fuller use of arms whose movements had been limited by the scarring produced by their operations. In the process, they also regain their selfesteem...
...felt ugly," recalls Mrs. Virginia Carmody, 50. At her first class, she says, "my arm hurt so badly that I yelled when someone touched it." The exercises, however, quickly overcame her problems. "After two weeks I had no pain," says Mrs. Carmody. After five months, she had mastered ballet's fifth position, in which the arms arch over the head. The accomplishment is impressive. Many would-be dancers who have not had mastectomies find the fifth position formidable...
...Come show time, the boys will look even more terpsichorean, according to Costumer Barbara Zelin. Besides pink tutus, "the fellows will wear low-cut white tank tops with their numbers in pink sequins, white tights to show off their legs-and tennis shoes. We haven't seen any ballet slippers in their size...
Brooding before a video-tape machine, a cigarette drooping from his mouth, Eliot Feld was working and reworking the choreography of his 1972 ballet of Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale. Two dancers stood by. Finally, Feld snapped off the TV and nodded to the pianist. Spinning out a series of steps, he recited, "Passé, chassé, saut de basque, heel, toe." On the next run-through, he renamed the steps: "Strength, will, talent, musicality, perseverance, time...
...burst upon the scene with Harbinger. He was only 24, a soloist at the American Ballet Theater. The son of a Brooklyn lawyer, he had been dancing since he was twelve. Harbinger is a young man's work-brisk, sunny and humorous. In the ballet world, it kicked up the same sort of commotion caused 23 years earlier by Fancy Free, Jerome Robbins' first success...