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Feline, flamboyant and faintly Oriental, Rudolf Nureyev has leaped across the stages of U.S. and European theaters for more than 20 years, capturing larger audiences for ballet than any other dancer in history...
Even in the stillness of photographs, Nureyev's animal vitality comes across in a rush of energy and sensuality. The dancer's fans will be bowled over by the 29 color and 146 black-and-white pictures, most of them previously unpublished, that illustrate this big, handsome book. Dance Critic Clive Barnes' chronicle charts the dancer's career back to its beginnings in the remote Bashkir Republic of the U.S.S.R., where, as a teenager, Rudi jumped and twirled in local folk dances. Battling the disapproval of his Tatar father, a Communist commissar, the youth made...
What's right in one neighborhood can be troublesome in another. When a Bronx break dancer named Crazy Legs took a recent trip to Chicago, wearing his hat at a precarious 45° angle, a local told him, "You better not wear your cap that way 'cause you could get hurt. Somebody could think you're a gangster." Still, hip hop has been downtown long enough that stylistic confusion like this is a little less frequent. Every Friday night, crews of rappers make the trip from The Bronx to the lower West Side of Manhattan, where they...
Their dancing reinforces this progression towards unity. In the first number. "I Hope I Get It," the cast performs deliberately offcue. Each time a dancer stumbles or misses a step, he winces with disappointment, and glances at the competition. When Zach later asks them to introduce themselves-- "I just want to hear you talk and be yourselves"--they freeze: this is an unexpected, personal request, and as the lights fade the artists cover their faces with promotional photos, hiding behind the confidence of a typed resume...
...actress, Sousa is also remarkable. Zach's one-time lover who left the chorus for an unsuccessful Hollywood career. Cassie returns to his audition full of sadness and desperation. In the end, the musical's triumph is largely her own; she wanted to be a dancer. Zach had wanted her to be a star, and in A Chorus Line, Pamela Sousa finally is both...