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...called ballet "renaissance" that you credit to visits by the Royal Danish and Royal Ballet actually originated in America's Ballet Theatre-the cradle of Jerome Robbins, Michael Kidd and Eugene Loring, to name a few. If anyone had anything to do with freeing the male danseur of sexual suspicion it was these gentlemen, and, of course, Agnes de Mille. Martha Graham, as well, influenced more forms of the arts than people would like to admit. To witness Miss Graham standing still for one minute has all the oomph of a Nureyev dancing for an entire evening...
...Chagall's La Madone du Village shot up to $82,500 (v. his previous all-time high of $77,500). Bonnard's opalescent bath peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute for $155,000 (v. $101,000). When Degas' Repetition de Ballet, a pastel and gouache painting considered the high point of the evening, came up on the block, it was greeted like a masterful pas de deux. The winning bidder, Dealer Stephen Hahn, did not even make a move until the price was $360-000, then calmly kept the pressure...
...rent-a-car ads (which led Hubert Humphrey to say: "I try harder. I have to. I'm only No. 2"). Doyle Dane's new service series for American Airlines includes a radio spot that explains how American's baggage handlers are choreographed as carefully as ballet dancers in order to improve their speed. It quickly sets up another underdog. "No, no, Steinhouser," the baggagemaster shouts as a tinny piano bangs out a tune. "You're not making it, Steinhouser." In perhaps its most famous campaign, Doyle Dane originated the "Think Small" motif for Volkswagen...
...when they can show off their own wares, Nureyev is acclaimed by every ballerina he has ever danced with as a totally sympathetic partner, showing off his ballerina in their pas de deux with dedicated deference. Moreover, he has exercised a strong and significant hand in enriching the Royal Ballet's repertory. His La Bayadere is the most recent Russian ballet of any substance to be adopted by a Western company. And he has made basic alterations in several other works, including Giselle and the Nutcracker adagio. If this is always aimed at enhancing the male role, a reasonable...
Still, all is not happy with the Royal Ballet. With all the brouhaha for Nureyev, some dancers feel ignored. Says one star dancer: "If Rudi doesn't push off eventually, I've got half a mind to take my candle out from under this bushel...