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...sooner had the Royal Ballet's prima ballerina Antoinette Sibley, 34, been given the plum of her career-a three-act version of Manon created especially for her by Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan-than she fell sick. A victim of frequent illness during her 18-year career, including tuberculosis and glandular fever, Sibley could not even start rehearsals last year because of an inflamed hip. Medication put her back on pointe, but she promptly irritated a nerve in her leg. Offstage again, she got the flu. When she finally opened in Manon last March in London, her personal triumph seemed...
...described Monique's role. "She gets loved to death. Monique makes love to the monster, and he embraces her so passionately that he crushes her backbone. It's all in 3-D." Dimensions intact, Monique turned up at Rudolf Nureyev's opening night with the National Ballet Company of Canada in Manhattan last week on the arm of Warhol. Hugging them both, but not enough to crush their backbones, she declared, "I love Rudolf," then added, "I love Andy too, but in a different...
Lithe Bodies. Considering what the dancers were doing on stage at the premiere, the mural did, at moments, serve as a kind of bas-relief. The youthful (average age: 21) Harkness troupers have splendidly lithe bodies for ballet. They are uniformly well schooled and delight in showing off, even flaunting, their imposing technique. Unfortunately, the choreography they are called upon to perform is of a piece with Senor Senis-Oliver's mural: epicene, self-indulgent and fundamentally empty...
...ballet with the word ceremony in the title is likely to involve some kind of sexual initiation cum tribal rite. Nor man Walker's Ceremonials - based on a surprisingly tame and even melodious score by Dissonant Composer Alberto Ginastera-is true to type. It appears to be set in Brazil, or perhaps Inca-era Peru. The curtain rises to disclose a corps of dancers entwined in suggestively statuesque poses. Later, most of the couples writhe languidly on the floor in what might generously be regarded as orgasmic abandon. According to one associate of the company, Ceremonials is jokingly referred...
...Ballet audiences being what they are, bravura showpieces for male dancers normally bring down the house. The audience response to Nebrada's Percussion for Six-Men seemed a trifle restrained, perhaps because this abstract exercise in display of technique called upon the dancers to go about their leaping trickery with more than a touch too much of preening narcissism. A case in point: one soloist performs a legato variation delicately poised on tippytoe. The display might have been aesthetically more attractive had he been a girl, or had the performance taken place at the Continental Baths...