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...argues Sorrentino, also a friend of the Material Girl. She stresses that Madonna, a former dancer and perennial workout fiend known to exercise for up to four hours a day, combines Pilates with jogging, cardiovascular exercise and weight training. Post-baby Pilates mainly helps to bring back those famous abs so prominent on the Blonde Ambition Tour...
...type of thing," she explains. "They've been through the aerobic stage, they've been through the jogging and weightlifting stages, and now they're 40. They're aging, and Pilates is perfect for osteoporosis, arthritis and building a great body. It's the long, lean look of a dancer's body that they've wanted all along...
...Byrnes, a retired dancer and mother of Maja K. Byrnes '00, agrees. Fifteen years ago, she recognized the sudden improvement of a fellow ballet dancer. The dancer in question shared her secret and sent Byrnes to a Pilates class. She has been a devotee ever since. Not only does she value the look maintained by regular Pilates, but Byrnes emphasizes that it is good for a bad back and gentle enough for her to continue workouts with a broken ankle. As for Madonna's sudden interest, Byrnes muses, "I think she'll get tired...
...Rudolf Nureyev really have a fling with Bobby Kennedy? This recently surfaced rumor isn't mentioned in the new biography of the most celebrated male ballet dancer of the postwar era. But even so, Nureyev's list of lovers was quite sufficiently star studded. (Did they or didn't they? Only Mick Jagger knows for sure.) Fortunately, Diane Solway is interested in more than just gossip, and her fact-crammed, plainly written chronicle is the most detailed and dependable account to date of Nureyev's hectic life. What fails to come through, oddly enough, is his artistry--if you never...
Also of notice was the peasant pas de deux in the first act, performed by Jennifer Gelfand and Paul Thrussell. Gelfand's dancing is both technically superb and artistically refined. She has grown to be an extremely mature dancer with strong, perfect turns and a confidence in her technique that allows her to work on even the in between steps, linking every turn and jump to the next, so that her variation is one long, beautiful movement that never ends. Her partner Paul Thrussell seemed weak and definitely not at his best, as he is usually an amazing and very...