Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relaxation, he watches sports on television, collects antiques, reads Russian authors (Maximov, Nekrasov, Sinyavsky) whose works are not published in the Soviet Union. He enjoys the company of fellow exiles, such as Poet Joseph Brodsky and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is a tireless Five-F man, in constant pursuit (in no special order) of Fiddles, Food, Females, Friends?and Fodka. He is a shameless flirt, eats like an orchestra, and puts away more booze than a commissar at a convention. "What I remember first about Slava," says Seiji Ozawa, "is lots of drinking. He taught me how to drink fantastic...
...theatrical career began with dancing lessons when Alexandra was four. Those dancing lessons continued until she was 16, when she switched over to singing and acting. "I don't think I wanted to be a professional dancer anyway," she says now, adding, "I was always going to use it for Broadway." She has performed every summer since junior high school--with the Boston Ballet, with the Canadian National Ballet, the Canadian National Center for the Performing Arts, on and studying at the London Royal summer at 20, appearing in "Jaws II," which folded, and taking lessons at the London Royal...
DIED. Uday Shankar, 76, India's most celebrated dancer and brother of Sitarist Ravi Shankar; of heart and kidney disease; in Calcutta. Shankar began his career as a painter but at 21 was discovered by Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova and invited to accompany her on a tour of the U.S. A decade later he returned to New York with his own troupe and introduced to the West a lavish, dramatic version of classic Indian dance. His dream, Shankar proclaimed, was to "create an atmosphere where the soul of India could speak...
...becomes almost impossible to develop involvement in, much less prepare for, any life outside the sealed box of rehearsal hall and stage, and this breeds an almost unbearable amount of tension. The physical and psychological stress-the two are not necessarily distinguishable-can be overwhelming. As one dancer remarks to Mazo, "I doubt that anyone can stay in this place and be healthy...