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...Mikhail Baryshnikov the American Ballet Theater seemed "a beautiful Tiffany lamp with some parts missing" when he was named its artistic director in June 1979. Last week Misha allowed two of the more glittering panes to fall from the A.B.T. lamp. Celebrated Ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, 27, and fast-rising Principal Dancer Patrick Bissell, 23, were dismissed from the company, one day before the season's opener at Washington's Kennedy Center. The official reason: "gross breach of contract." The two had failed to appear for a dress rehearsal, explained Executive Director Herman Krawitz, and had been "chronically late...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland of the American Ballet Theater, soprano Anna Moffo, television personality Dick Cavett, singer Aretha Franklin and the Boston Ballet will star in the theater's opening on December...
...call for a U.S. tour in the spring and a possible European junket after that. Makarova wanted to be artistic director of the American Ballet Theater, her main performing base since she defected from the Soviet Union ten years ago, but lost that post to fellow Emigré Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her new venture not only gives her control over a company but allows her to choose roles that she might otherwise not get. She also wants to pass on the training she received at Leningrad's fabled Kirov school to American dancers. The inexperience of her corps was intentional...
...true tribute to Rhapsody is that one does not leave thinking what on earth will they do with it after Baryshnikov has gone? Although no other dancer will be able to execute all his cadenzas of flight, the Royal still has a good addition to its repertory. Rhapsody is valuable for the members of the corps because they must stretch into an expansive, lyrical style while dancing complicated steps. The ballerina part is lightly glamorous, but it requires a whipping allegro technique. Ashton, as usual, has thought of the company as well as the star...
...Royal has lacked direction and has had difficulty developing young stars. It would be good if he worked with the company more often. After last week's premiere, Ashton commented that nowadays something special is required "to set one off." Rhapsody owes its existence in part to Baryshnikov ("It was thrilling, really. I have never worked with anyone who has such a brilliant technique"). But Ashton has nothing else planned now: "I could do the Blue Danube tomorrow. I have the craft. But to do an other ballet, I want a strong pulse, an idea or very suitable music...