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...didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph," she says. "My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer." In fact she has prepared the transition that must come when the founder of a company is no longer its performing focus...
...death of Balanchine in April underscored the present scarcity of talented choreographers, a problem that every large company must deal with. Baryshnikov tries to be philosophical. "One has lived with this a long time," he observes. "If one looks around the country, there are very few names-Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Jerry Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Eliot Feld. It must have been wonderful to be here in the '40s when Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Agnes de Mille were making ballets for A.B.T. I wish I could choreograph like Balanchine, but I can't, so I am patient...
...Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow it up to the size of the Loeb mainstage, add reddish lights and a crescent moon, choreograph it for 30 people in black lectards, and what have you got? Nothing, Nothing...
Consequently, it is the students, faculty and staff who produce and direct plays, choreograph, dances, arrange for art exhibits, visiting lectures, performers and scholars, and are involved in athletics. There is no reliance on letting others do it for them...
DIED. Valerie Bettis, 62, mesmerizing modern dancer and dynamic, unconventional choreographer; of a heart attack; in New York City. The first modern dancer to choreograph for a major ballet company (Virginia Sampler in 1947 for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), she also worked for Broadway and Hollywood, bringing back to the dance a concept of "total theater," the combined use of singing, dancing and acting in such ballets as As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner's novel, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a scorching version of Tennessee Williams' play...