Word: baryshnikov
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...artistry and daring onstage. The pleasure in reading these pieces, which were first printed in The New Yorker, is in the variety of performers she finds who embody her standards. They may be hoofers or acrobats or even movie actors. About the very best- George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov- she can write truly rhapsodic prose, an act of daring in itself. About the pretentious, the emptily theatrical or the slipshod, she can be funny or downright outraged...
...grands jetes were supposed to be no more than a leap of the imagination. Grounded by a knee injury at 34, almost twice the age of some of his male colleagues, Mikhail Baryshnikov seemed destined for full-time duty as artistic director of the American Ballet Theater. But last week at the 19th century Teatro Nuovo at Spoleto, Italy, "Misha" returned to his airborne artistry, performing with elan in Other Dances, a new work by Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63. As for speculation that his turn as a dancer is almost over, "That 'almost' can mean...
...profligately as the Kirov, and certainly no foreign company has had so strong an influence on American dance. Pavlova, whose ceaseless touring virtually introduced ballet to the U.S.; Balanchine, creator of many of this century's choreographic masterpieces; Nureyev and Makarova, who set new standards for classical style; Baryshnikov, who is probably the greatest male dancer since Nijinsky and is in the process of turning the American Ballet Theater into a major classical ensemble-all these have emerged from the Kirov...
...considerable mystique, but it is not the only reason why American ballet lovers are juggling airline deals to get to Paris. It is very difficult to see the Kirov; the troupe tours less than the rival Bolshoi, even in the U.S.S.R. Since it has lost three superstars (Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov) in 20 years, the company has been kept home at times for security reasons (the last U.S. tour was in 1964). After Baryshnikov's departure, it was rumored that the Kirov had deteriorated and that morale was low. Those difficulties, if they existed, seem, on the basis...
...Studebaker, could erupt in spasms of grace. As one of the Blues Brothers, the blue-eyed soul group that brought Belushi a platinum record and a big-budget movie, this slab in a black suit would suddenly turn a series of split-second cartwheels, like a hippo Baryshnikov. Belushi was the ideal comic complement to his SNL colleague, close friend and fellow Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd. But whereas Aykroyd disappears into his wicked, perfectly pitched characterizations, Belushi was a Method mimic. His impersonations seemed fun-house mirrors of his own turbulence. They were ego run wild. That gave them...