Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, is "more of a joy now than ever. It's more of a challenge." Between rehearsals, Makarova, 37, squeezes in time with Andrei. No, he isn't yet en pointe, but his legs, at least in his mother's eyes, are "just like a dancer...
Both men share a common artistic heritage: they trained at Leningrad's Maryinsky Ballet, later called the Kirov. After he left, Balanchine created a revolution in classical ballet, but his newest dancer feels that he is, in a sense, coming home. 'I am entering the ideal future of Maryinsky Ballet," he exults, "two hundred years ahead, but here it is! And now I will find my own new face...
...dancer came upon Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder with George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, in apparent distress, weeping in an office. When he rushed to help, Kirstein, 71, waved him away. "These are tears of joy," he said. "Baryshnikov is joining our company." At the American Ballet Theater it was the dancers who wept when Mikhail Baryshnikov gathered them together after last Wednesday's performance to say goodbye: "It is now or never. I have to work with Mr. B." For A.B.T. Baryshnikov's leap to Balanchine is a profound loss; "Misha" was their inspiration...
...question of what Gelsey does when not involved with dance formerly evoked an immediate response: When is that? Now she finds time for friends. She and Johnna, a principal dancer with the Los Angeles Ballet, are on easy if not intimate terms. Schafer lives nearby, and the two regularly dine together. Since both must watch their weight, they order separate appetizers and share a single main course. The new Gelsey has learned to like being naughty, at least once in a while. What does she do when she wants to feel wicked? "I just come home, eat a few good...
...stands at about 15 million, a threefold increase in just five years. Ballet schools? There are thousands of them, from small outfits run by a single proprietor-instructor to big operations affiliated with the major professional companies. The highly-rated A.B.T. school, where the parents of an aspiring dancer may pay $700 a year for nine hours of classes a week, now has 1,000 students, an increase of 25% in five years. But that is no big deal: the schools run by the San Francisco Ballet (587 students), the Minnesota Dance Theater (950) and the Ballet West in Salt...