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Wilkerson's efforts to pursue dance her freshman year met with opposition. "For a dancer it was a completely unsupportive environment," she says. Dismayed by the lack of technical ability of the dancers in the official Radcliffe-Harvard dance company, she found release in her classes at the Cambridge School of Ballet. The hours spent at classes, however, contributed to a growing sense that she was "existing outside the University...
...story is a boggler. Nikiya (Makarova), a bayadére, or temple dancer, and the imperious Rajah's daughter Gamzatti (Cynthia Harvey) are rivals for the love of the great warrior Solor (Anthony Dowell), who pledges himself to Nikiya over a sacred fire. Later the Rajah chooses Solor to marry his daughter. If this sounds like Aida, it is. In the ballet, both women are murderous. Gamzatti, who plants a deadly snake among flowers given to the dancer, is the successful killer, but Nikiya has ectoplasmic revenge. Her spirit appears first in a lyrical vision to Solor, and again...
...metamorphosis and erotic fulfillment in the history of Western art. They were provided by his affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, a young woman whom Picasso picked up outside a Paris department store in 1927. He was 45, feeling trapped in a sour marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Koklova; Marie-Th?...
...bestowed little love on his children after they passed the age of cherubic portraiture. Born over a span of 28 years, they were: Paulo, his only legitimate child, by Dancer Olga Koklova (he died in 1975); Maya, by Marie-Thérèse Walter; and Claude and Paloma, by Franchise Gilot. One of the few paramours or wives with any pretension to intellectuality, Gilot (now married to famed U.S. Scientist Dr. Jonas Salk) was co-author of a bitter book, Life with Picasso, in which she calls him a manipulator of human beings: "He loved only one thing...
...dancer is indispensable to the company, as its leader never tires of saying. He works with the artists he has, and he demonstrates exactly what he wants them to do. Says Karin von Aroldingen, for whom he has created many parts: "He shows every movement He cannot use a move unless he knows what it feels like...