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...Hillenbrand at the table, speaking with remarkable perception and good humor about her commitment to the fantastical and fiercely competitive world of dance. There, and in a second session at Washington's Watergate Hotel, she answered all questions about her on-and offstage rivalry with Sister Johnna, a dancer herself; her maturing relationship with Choreographer George Balanchine; her feelings about music; the physical breakdown that lost her a starring movie role in The Turning Point; and her new-found artistic maturity. When she discovered that her interviewer was a fellow New Yorker, she also celebrated the Upper West Side...
...fantasies of joining her onstage. With that, she reached down and pulled off his left shoe. "Good extension," she judged as she tugged at Gray's foot while the nonplused writer tried to stretch it. Did the young ballerina have any hope for the 38-year-old aspiring dancer? Proclaimed a Gelsey as graceful offstage as she is on: "It's never too late...
...Gelsey Kirkland, 25, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, that trial has ended successfully. An obvious prospect at eight and a gleam in the eye of George Balanchine at 15, Gelsey (pronounced with a hard g, as in great) has emerged from ballet's long chrysalis stage as the most exciting young ballerina in the Western world...
...Nureyev commends her: "She has that beautiful fluidity in her movements and an incredible strength for such a small girl." Mikhail Baryshnikov notes that "she advances from performance to performance. Her taste and artistic outlook are constantly developing, and none of us can predict how far she will go." Dancer Edward Villella singles out the essence of a performance: "Those steel-like legs that are doing the most fantastic technical feats, while the upper body is soft and lovely as though nothing was going on underneath...
Gelsey has been drawing superlatives from balletomanes ever since she was a tiny dancer. No one who saw her nearly nine years ago in Jerome Robbins' piano ballet Dances at a Gathering doubted the arrival of a technical virtuoso. Gelsey sped through every challenge of the choreography, the visual equivalent of the rippling Chopin score. Though some in those days found her work rather cold, reservations never centered on her talent. The question was not whether she could make it to the top but whether she would self-destruct first. For her fame within dance's inner circle rests...