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...have always had the cream," boasts New York City Ballet's George Balanchine, "but now with more danc ers going through the sieve, the cream is richer than ever before. Our company is packed with great dancers. Any one of them would be a prima ballerina with any other company...
Like a proud father, Balanchine this season has exposed a wealth of gifted young girls in a variety of major roles, almost to the exclusion of the older principal dancers. Patricia Neary, 22, for example, who graduated from the corps de ballet just last year, has per formed 47 solos so far this season, while Maria Tallchief, 39, long the company's biggest box-office attraction, has danced but eleven times. Tallchief, the fourth of Balanchine's five ballerina wives, says wistfully: "When I was married to Mr. Balanchine, he created his greatest roles...
...watch out," says one member of the troupe. "If you get too good at a role, you'll lose it." He discourages the star system by refusing to announce in advance which dancers are performing. Audiences queuing up at the New York State Theater last week for Ballet Imperial did not know whether they would see Tallchief or, as it happened, a budding teen-ager named Suzanne Farrell. In the past, explains Balanchine, when a soloist fell ill he had to scratch the ballet. Now, he says happily, he can confidently call on any one of several dancers...
...MAZZO, 18, a willowy, fragilely pretty girl from Chicago. A sickly child, she began dancing at age six on the ad vice of her doctor, went on to tour with Jerome Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A. before joining the New York City Ballet two years ago. She has danced leading roles only eight times, but memorably, especially in Afternoon of a Faun, a ballet perfectly attuned to her feathery, sweetly feminine style...
...third of all Filipinos work only three months a year. Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack towns along the Sulu Sea. Daughters of wealthy Manila socialites sport names like "Ting-Ting" and take ballet lessons, while at an annual festival at Obando, childless women perform a rhythmic fertility dance coaxing the saints to help them conceive. Polo is played in Manila, but headhunting is occasionally still the game in the wild, distant mountains of northern Luzon...