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...Ballet," for instance, Agnes de Mille emphasizes the difficulty of maintaining ballet posture. "It is possible to win a track meet; but to win a track meet and to look at the same moment as though one were far away, reading a book, takes some doing...
Choreographer George Balanchine conceived his ballet, the Prodigal Son, as a poem of bitter passions, a lantern carried into the darkness to light an anguished face. Balanchine responded to Prokofiev's music by composing a gymnastic grotesquerie, free of all the gestures of classical ballet. The only dancer to perform the title role since Prodigal Son was revived by Balanchine's New York City Ballet four years ago has been Edward Villella, whose athletic command of the part was soon being praised as a great dance portrayal. Last week, to open the new season, Prodigal Son was danced...
Villella was a boxer and baseball player at the New York State Maritime College before he made dancing his career, and his presence on a ballet stage is deeply reassuring. With Villella and Principal Dancers Jacques d'Amboise, Erik Bruhn and Conrad Ludlow, Balanchine's company is now notable for the strength of its male dancers-a happy change...
...knows all about pretty young girls and those show-biz types. So it took a heap of persuading before he would allow his eldest daughter (among ten children), Geraldine Chaplin, 19, to set her toe in that direction. But Charlie finally let her enter London's Royal Ballet School in 1961. No sooner was she there than a picture of her in a decollete dress appeared, and Charlie blew his bowler. But daughters have a way of getting around fathers, and Geraldine stayed. This week she gets her biggest role: a four-minute solo as the Persian princess...
...that, Chukhrai offers noteworthy compensations. His film is brimful of humanity and humor. His actors are superb, particularly Drobysheva. Meeting her hero for the first time on a snowy street corner, she turns a blind date into a glorious little ballet of girlish uncertainty. Women at a railway station, waiting for the merest glimpse of their menfolk, watch a troop train roar through at top speed, leaving behind an acre or so of stunned faces that say all there is to say about war's anguish at home. And Chukhrai pumps irony into a sequence that has Sasha posing...