Word: baryshnikov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Frankie Lymon were some of his contemporaries, but the singer who really knocked Jackie Wilson out was Al Jolson. Jackson may dance like Baryshnikov straddling a jackhammer, move like a street blood steeped in Astaire and t'ai chi, sing like an angel on a soul-food bender, but a fair portion of his personal taste and his musical inspiration comes from the sort of glitzy places where soul seldom strays. One of his favorite things is My Favorite Things, sung by Julie Andrews, raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens and all. He loves...
...handles certain material, such as social dancing, pop songs and pop-up emotions, better than anyone else, in an idiom that seems delightfully impromptu and improper. The loose-jointed, off-balance look is unmistakable, whether a gleeful Sara Rudner is jigging through Eight Jelly Rolls or a bemused Mikhail Baryshnikov is buckling under the weight of his hat in Push Comes to Shove. A lot of the action takes place right at wingside: people venture onstage and quickly think better of it, or they try two or three different entrances, or they are flung on and hurled off by their...
...company will be offering throughout the week "Graduation Ball", "Bach partita," "Miss Julie," "sinatra Suite," "Symphonie Concertante." "The Little Ballet," and tonight's world premiere of "Cinderella" Mikhail Baryshnikov choreographed the last ballet, which promises to be a very interesting performance...
...audience. In fact, three-quarters of the time, the audience either was laughing or snickering. Danilo Radojevic was superb in his characterization of the male lead. He acted and danced, poked fun and tried to be serious without displaying any conscious effort or strain. In past years, Mikhail Baryshnikov has danced this part, but Radojevic added his own spunk and cleverness that equally compare to Baryshnikov's dazzling reputation...
...death of Balanchine in April underscored the present scarcity of talented choreographers, a problem that every large company must deal with. Baryshnikov tries to be philosophical. "One has lived with this a long time," he observes. "If one looks around the country, there are very few names-Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Jerry Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Eliot Feld. It must have been wonderful to be here in the '40s when Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Agnes de Mille were making ballets for A.B.T. I wish I could choreograph like Balanchine, but I can't, so I am patient...