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...Festival, Godard passes from self-consciousness to militant solipsism. The movie is, first, about capitalism, colonialism, and exploitation. It is a Western, set at the Alcoa plant just outside of Dodge City. Almost numbingly didactic, the film catalogues the niceties of repression, as Godard's troupe performs a classic ballet; a strike occurs; a delegate to management is chosen; active minorities speak up; an assembly is followed by repression; an active strike marks the onset of a police state...
BEFORE the filming began. Wadleigh told his crew that when something turned them on they should stay with it. Now we know that this charmingly democratic principle wouldn't work in say, a stage production or a ballet, and there's no reason to suppose it's responsible for good movies either. Cameramen are, after all, spectators like the rest of us. When you shoot film you naturally want to have something nice and cinematic to look at as long as you're working; therefore cameramen are drawn to certain types of shots. Unfortunately, from the look of Woodstock, everyone...
Twas love and ambition, not politics, that prompted the current grand jete of defecting Soviet dancers. Natalia Makarova of the Kirov Ballet, according to rumor, managed to fall in love during the Kirov's London performance and may be offered a leading role in Rudolf Nureyev's new ballet...
Life of the Great Nijinsky. Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away in Guadalajara, Mexico, two dancers from Moiseyev's Russian Classical Ballet also defected, they too for love. Giennadi Simonovich Vos-trikov took his Mexican girl friend Christina with him when he went to apply for asylum, while Aleksander Silippov left no doubt that his fascination with Brazilian Dancer Lucia Tristao was the main reason for his staying. For Lucia he has given up his wife, mother and the homeland to which he still professes loyalty...
...enter a vocational high school; it simply bored him. He dropped out, but won a scholarship in music at Manhattan's Juilliard School. Later Stein wrote music and produced a few off-Broadway shows on shoestring budgets. To make money he sold librettos at the Metropolitan Opera House. After ballet performances he sometimes bought back programs from departing customers and resold them at later performances, netting a small but perhaps significant capital gain. When he finally decided that he was not destined to become a great violinist, he put his fiddle into a closet and permanently gave up playing...