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...returned in triumph to Washington last fall, performing George Balanchine's demanding Square Dance with daredevil flair at the Kennedy Center's Balanchine Celebration. The resurrection continues in Chicago Oct. 11-14 with The Nijinsky Mystique, a season-opening triple bill of ballets by Vaslav Nijinsky, the most renowned dancer of the 20th century. The performances will include his once scandalous, now classic Afternoon of a Faun and controversial reconstructions of his long-lost choreography for The Rite of Spring and Jeux--exactly the sort of imaginative programming that put the Joffrey on the map back in its glory days...
Ethan Stiefel, the greatest American-born male ballet dancer since Edward Villella, has appeared in a dazzlingly wide range of works since joining American Ballet Theatre in 1997--Le Corsaire, Billy the Kid, Balanchine's Apollo, Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove--performing them all with a casual virtuosity and unmannered grace worthy of Fred Astaire. On Oct. 26, Stiefel adds a new role to his repertoire: the male lead in Dim Lustre, Antony Tudor's rarely seen, piercingly Proustian tale of remembered love. It's part of A.B.T.'s New York City winter season...
...rated as one of the great American talents, and should have been long ago; an aesthete of unshakable integrity who looked and talked like Popeye the Sailor Man, a cigar-chomping wisecracker of diabolic humor whose curriculum vitae (timber worker, carpenter, sailor, U.S. Marine Corps marksman, acrobat, gandy dancer and voluble loner) was not, to put it mildly, of a kind normal in the art world...
...Juan Lara was a Latin dancer and singer before being introduced to woodworking. Regarding this work as an essential like food, by 1986 he apprenticed to a cabinetmaker and seven years after toiled in a basement shop. In 1995, he became owner of this storefront showcase and workshop. Letter holders, games, and pencil holders sell for $25. Beds, bookcases, tables, entertainment centers, coat racks, computer desks can be custom ordered in modern or country style...
...night?its sign reads "Amazing Thai Food"?motorcycle taxi drivers and bar girls start to swarm. Four years ago Kiam was a rice farmer in the northeast. "I barely made enough to feed myself," he says. Now, on a good night, he can make $80 in profit. Somkid, a dancer in a nearby go-go bar, says her foreign boyfriends-for-the-night are revolted when they see her scarfing down scarab beetles. But as she plucks the legs off a locust so she can suck out its eggs, Somkid claims her dietary habits have never cost her a customer...