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...than half the top box office names even performed. There were just four dances on the program and no encores. Until Twyla Tharp's roof-raising Push Comes to Shove, the audience seemed in shock. They were learning what the A.B.T. company discovered several months ago: when Mikhail Baryshnikov took over as artistic director, he wanted changes and he meant business...
What he presented to the patrons after an unprecedented 13 weeks of rehearsal last fall and a 17-week national tour was his new star: the corps de ballet. Its members are younger, more attractive, tirelessly drilled. On opening night they danced with unity, grace and fervor. Baryshnikov revived one of the gala ballets, Frederick Ashton's feather-light Les Rendezvous, just to show off the corps. He has high hopes for these girls in white tulle and pink ribbons and their cavaliers...
...Rudi and I dancing together was not a big deal, but pure tongue-in-cheek fun," says Mikhail Baryshnikov, 33, of his first appearance with Countryman Rudolf Nureyev, 43. Though they are longtime rivals, each responded with a hearty da when Choreographer Paul Taylor suggested that they pair up at the opening night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando...
Just now, the sex star has another priority: breast-feeding an eight-pound girl named Alexandra, the first child of Lange and Mikhail Baryshnikov, artistic director of American Ballet Theater. When he heard the news two weeks ago, Baryshnikov, who was in Buffalo with A.B.T., flew back to Manhattan to see his daughter. "She's beautiful," says Lange, 31, of Alexandra, who was delivered by natural childbirth. "I was enormously proud that she came into the world naturally. But then my baby is bright and alert. She made it easy." Lange seemed almost as pleased to talk about...
...will link other monuments. That same day George Bush and his family will be wel comed by Texas Governor Wil liam Clements at a "black-tie and boots" reception. On Sun day, there will be two candle light dinners and four concerts at the Kennedy Center, featuring Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich leading the National Symphony Orchestra. Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush will toast a "distinguished ladies" reception for 7,000 on Monday...