Word: baryshnikov
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Sounds and images once considered experimental are now becoming commonplace. Knockoffs of Glass's trademark repeating chords and arpeggios pop up in television commercials, movie scores and the New Age sounds of Windham Hill. Tharp's sinuous, explosive movements have been danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Free-form surrealism is the mainstay of the rock videos on MTV, and their most innovative directors, like Russell Mulcahy, have graduated to feature films. Probably not in the past half-century have the works of the avant-garde achieved such wide currency among mainstream audiences...
...supermarket chat with his son, about the bad things bad men do to people, is one of the film's surprise highlights. The killer is both monstrous and pathetic: a sad, overgrown child. Only when he springs into violent action is he imposing, graceful. He becomes a Baryshnikov of derangement...
...Paris Opera Ballet, making its first U.S. visit in 38 years, shared a stage with the American Ballet Theatre before a benefit audience brimming with celebrities, including Nancy Reagan. One highlight of the festivities was provided by Rudolf Nureyev, 48, the Paris troupe's artistic director, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, 38, his counterpart at A.B.T. The two Soviet-exile superstars joined French-born Actress Leslie Caron in a nostalgic recreation of dances from her movie musicals. The evening's host was another symbol of Franco-American cooperation, Gene Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris with Caron 35 years...
...accident that the teachers of the Summer Dance Center receive such rave reviews from their students. Fanger attributes a 20 percent rise in enrollment this year to the excellence of her teaching staff. She says that while she "doesn't have anyone like Baryshnikov," she hires faculty members "for the quality of their teaching and the kind of work they're doing professionally...
...know one another before Crimes. They have maintained separate lives off the set. Lange lives with Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who plays her former lover in the film, their six-month-old daughter Hannah and Lange's five-year-old daughter Shura, whose father is Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Spacek moved into a house with her husband Jack Fisk and their three-year-old daughter Schuyler. Keaton has a house on the beach...