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...YORK CITY BALLET. Along with Martha Graham, George Balanchine helped lay the foundations of 20th century dance. In Edward Villella, Patricia McBride, Allegra Kent, Helgi Tomasson, Peter Martins and Peter Schaufuss, City Ballet has wonderful dancers. But it frowns on stars and remains a choreographer's company, mainly in the Balanchine mold. Too much of a good thing has resulted in high-quality, efficient but somehow uninvolved evenings. The return of prodigal Suzanne Farrell from five years abroad, plus increasing focus on Choreographer Jerome Robbins' wide-ranging talents, may create some needed excitement...
This season City Ballet confronts its stiffest artistic challenge ever. During the last three weekends of May, Hommage a Ravel, a centenary celebration of the French composer's birth, will feature a festival of 16 new ballets against a vast fresco of Ravel music. "In ballet there has to be something new every season," Balanchine explains calmly. "Also, Ravel was a Basque and all the Basques dance." Because the company cannot afford to close down even for a week, the new dances must be created and rehearsed while the company continues to perform the 36 ballets now in repertory...
PAUL TAYLOR COMPANY. A former Graham disciple, Taylor is a modern dancer tantalized by ballet. His hip thrusts and broad jumps are as big and cheerful as he is. His linear choreography has satiric bite. Esplanade, a new piece, will be shown during a June 10-15 engagement at Manhattan's Lyceum Theater...
CITY CENTER JOFFREY BALLET. From half a dozen dancers practicing in a former chocolate factory, the Jeffrey has grown into a troupe of 43. In 1967, Choreographer Robert Jeffrey created Astarte, the first multimedia ballet. But it was Associate Director Gerald Arpino's Trinity (1970), a contemporary barn dance set to the throbbing sounds of a rock band, that roused a Leningrad audience to 36 curtain calls and a 27-minute ovation during last fall's Russian tour. Summer activities include a West Coast tour in June...
...shouldn't a black be a ballet dancer?" No reason why not, said former City Ballet Member Arthur Mitchell, the first black artist to become a principal dancer in a major ballet company. In 1969, Mitchell and Dance Pedagogue Karel Shook started the only black classical company in the U.S. Today they preside over a school of 1,000 and an exuberant troupe of 27. Chicagoans will have the chance to see stylish, unaffected dancers next week...