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...have me in the preppie look," says Vinh with disdain. Retorts Le Giau: "When I went to school we wore uniforms." Imelda Ortiz finds herself in a tug-of-war with her mother over American teens' signature apparel: tight jeans. "My mom says I look like a Solid Gold dancer and makes me take them off," complains Imelda. "She looks at the way some Anglo girls dress and says they don't have dominio propio (self- control...
...freedom means choice, then Baryshnikov reveled in it, pursuing myriad options. He has worked with a dozen or so choreographers. With Twyla Tharp's brilliant Push Comes to Shove (1976), his flair for comedy burst out. In 1977 he became a Hollywood star, playing a famous dancer in The Turning Point. (Another film, White Nights, will be released at Christmas.) The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney...
Suzanne Farrell is a lucky dancer. She is 39 now, and still the most exciting ballerina in the world. Purists may fret over whether her lower back is as springy as ever, but the years have if anything enhanced her artistry -- the daring and the inspired eccentricity with which she can ignite a dull ballet and redefine a great role. Farrell created her own biggest stroke of fortune simply by inspiring George Balanchine over nearly two decades to create a necklace of marvelous parts for her; it is surely the richest repertory of any dancer within memory...
Robbins' more familiar virtues are evident too, particularly his inspired casting. In selecting Luders -- a fine partner but a phlegmatic performer often taken for granted by the audience and even by himself -- the choreographer rinses away years of familiarity to present a dancer of mesmerizing ardor. Luders reveals a plangency and aplomb that match Farrell's stroke for stroke...
...grids and arcs of the city. The Paris that issued from his camera was not the serene city of Atget, immemorial and mostly unpeopled. Neither was it Brassai's close-in platform for the dramas of the demimonde. Kertesz's Paris was like the woman in his picture Satiric Dancer: pert, ironic and caught at a fresh tilt...