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Whatever the reason, the Boston Ballet falls short too much of the time. At worst, the edges were fuzzy, like a photograph out of focus--one dancer among several off the music by a glaring beat or two, four dancers in a line with legs extended at four different levels. More often, what was missing was not so much technique as imaginative energy. Nothing in particular distinguished several perfectly competent dancers in the first act from perfectly competent performers in any of a dozen other balletic roles. If anyone knew they were the gift-bearing Fairies, it was thanks...
...show in which sentiment is in short supply, the number "Recollections of an Old Dancer" is a finely wrought exception. Done to the song Mr. Bojangles, it captures the wrenching effect of advanced age for a dancer, together with the agelessness of the spirit of dance. Another standout is an amusing stunt number called "Fourteen Feet," which might have been titled "Look Ma, No Feet!" Seven dancers implant their feet in nailed-down clogs and proceed to sway, shake and swivel. At one point the lighting trans forms them into electric eels. Electric they...
T.S.I.F.--Adonna, Belly dancer, Schneider Center...
...Figaro of Spanish barbers. He flirts recklessly, he fumes, he pouts. He does a wonderful bit with two mugs, leaping and drinking out of both at once. He has a hilarious, hollow-eyed mad scene in which he stabs himself- a sort of male Giselle. No choreographer-dancer is more generous to his colleagues than Baryshnikov in Don Q, but his acting makes it Basil's story...
...damage apparently had already been done, although who, if anyone, is to blame remains unclear. On Aug. 28, Gainesway Farm, syndicators of such champions as Canonero II and Cannonade, imported a $6.6 million French stallion named Lyphard, son of Northern Dancer. Just before the deadline, Spendthrift Farm, stud managers of Nashua and Majestic Prince, flew in the stallion Caro from France. Both horses arrived with French certificates of health and passed the standard USDA tests. Moreover, both Caro and Lyphard were cleared by a specific test for CEM conducted in midwinter by the anxious USDA, which feared that some horses...