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...seem to compete with their human subjects rather than record them. Yet photography in the right hands can bring something to dance as well, and Migdoll is at his best when he gives the eye permanent images that would otherwise have disappeared in a blur. Two photographs of Mikhail Baryshnikov, all intense concentration and soaring energy, are themselves classics and more than worth the reasonable price of this book...
...Bears do, indeed, forgo the mincing ankle exercise this night. But a visitor also notices that the rest of their pre-game ritual would be more familiar to Mikhail Baryshnikov than Don Meredith Pairing off to use one another's backs as ballet bars, they stretched and flexed their legs, loosening hamstring and groin muscles that are always vulnerable to injury. In slow, progressive steps, they worked kinks out of their necks and backs. A perfunctory round of jumping-jack hops is the only recognizable survivor from football calisthenics past. "The wrong kind of exercise can cause injury," Verbruggen...
...Misha Baryshnikov left the American Ballet Theater last May in order to dance the works of Balanchine and his partner, Jerome Robbins. Rumors flew that Baryshnikov would dance in with his new company in New York during June. It was probably a good idea to begin in the summer season at Saratoga Springs, for if there is any respite from the demands of superstardom, it can be found in this quiet, informal arts center. The performing area is a pavilion that seats 5,100 (many more people can see the action from some distance on the lawn). Saratogans take pride...
...Baryshnikov's debut, as Frantz in Coppelia, was at a matinee. The crowd was full of mothers and kids who had bought seats long before the announcement of Baryshnikov's appearance. Frantz is an ebullient young man; his entrance is a headlong dash to the front of the stage. Baryshnikov made it his signature: an outpouring of physical power and grace, as well as a challenge to the audience to soar with him. His first afternoon had a couple of rough spots: in the first act he strolled onstage ahead of cue and was stuck watching dances...
...next appeared in a very different work, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, which has almost no steps at all. It is a brief, seductive work about two dancers practicing in front of a "mirror" (actually the proscenium) and gradually making enigmatic erotic contact with each other. Baryshnikov's first original Balanchine works are Stars and Stripes and Rubies, both of which happen to call for speed, wit and fiendish virtuosity...