Word: contrariesâ
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...moving into the class of the finest ballerinas: New York City Ballet's Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, A.B.T.'s Natalia Makarova and Cynthia Gregory; and Gelsey is six years younger than the youngest of these. Her stage presence fuses contraries???strength and limpidity, control and abandon, energy and ease. "It's difficult to talk about Gelsey," says Choreographer Antony Tudor, "because she is so right." Many try nonetheless. Rudolf Nureyev commends her: "She has that beautiful fluidity in her movements and an incredible strength for such a small girl." Mikhail Baryshnikov notes that "she advances from performance to performance...
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