Word: choreographing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work: he appeared in a 1981 international tour of West Side Story and with Sandy Duncan in last year's Five-Six-Seven-Eight . . . Dance! at Radio City Music Hall, but at the moment he is a waiter and disc jockey at catered parties. "I choreograph a video here, I dance in an industrial film there. But this is not steady employment...
...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...