Word: baryshnikov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays have been comedies, three of them sex farces, and the cheapest of four new musicals cost $5 million to stage, it is heartening to see work as simple, spare and serious as Metamorphosis. One just wishes it were better. Despite an effective stage- acting debut by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, the most ballyhooed highbrow event in the theater so far this year is all but bereft of emotional force. At the finale, two actresses stand rigid, their cheeks glazed with tears, yet much of the audience reacts only with uneasy titters. Director Steven Berkoff's highly stylized script and direction...
PRIVATE VIEW: INSIDE BARYSHNIKOV'S AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE by John Fraser (Bantam; $30). One season (1986-87) in the life of a great dance company. The text, and the grainy photographs by Eve Arnold, explode with candor...
PRIVATE VIEW: INSIDE BARYSHNIKOV'S AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE by John Fraser (Bantam; $30). One season (1986-87) in the life of a great dance company. The text and grainy candid photographs by Eve Arnold beat with life and explode with candor...
...artistic director is a one-man band. But of course he has help, and Private View explains clearly how this bulky performing machine keeps going. Fund raiser Larry Lynn tracks Kimberly-Clark for $2,500 worth of free Kleenex. It is ballet mistress Elena Tchernichova who actually produces the"Baryshnikov ballerina." Fraser recognizes and describes the importance of Charles France, Baryshnikov's assistant, to his boss. A brilliant, obsessive fellow, France virtually handed his head, stuffed with dance scholarship and a phenomenal performance memory, to Baryshnikov on a plate. Often his erudition was crucial; a Soviet's knowledge of dance...
With Elizabeth Taylor, Cher and Liza Minnelli all cashing in on the profit potential of perfumes named after them, it was inevitable that male celebrities would be next. Among the stars for whom perfumers are developing scents: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Julio Iglesias and Muhammad...