Word: darci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mendes had accused two wealthy landowner brothers, Darli and Alvarino Alves da Silva, of plotting to kill him. Last week Darli's son, Darci Alves da Silva Perera, 21, confessed to assassinating Mendes. Police are convinced that Darci is trying to cover up for his father and uncle and have arrested seven other relatives and family friends in connection with the crime...
...blocks between Lincoln Center and his apartment overlooking Central Park. For several years he shared his life with N.Y.C.B. Principal Heather Watts, 29, for whom he created a number of parts. That is now over, and there is speculation among City Ballet watchers about his relationship with Ballerina Darci Kistler, 18. "What can I call Darci?" he muses. "She is a very close friend, a girl who is focused and dedicated. I like that in people." His leisure time is limited to an occasional Jeep ride to a hilltop aerie he owns in Connecticut. He takes a robust pleasure...
...company's three less well-known choreographers had their difficulties. Peter Martins did a brief, saucy Piano-Rag-Music for Darci Kistler, showing this explosive teenage star as a Ginger Rogers in pointe shoes. His longer work, Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, illustrated just how recalcitrant Stravinsky can be: Martins' formidable clarity and order were exhausted by the endless drill of notes. Jacques d'Amboise's Serenade en la had one irresistible sequence: a lighthearted duet for two very short girls (Stacy Caddell and Nichol Hlinka), in which the arms are usually joined but the steps...
...Robbins is; his sense of structure-of how to hold a multimovement piece together-is stronger and surer. Against an art deco backdrop with a huge "G," Robbins enshrines the soul of Gershwin's piano in four crisply moving soloists, led by the technically dazzling, ebullient Darci Kistler. He impersonates the orchestra with a corps of 24 dancers-a dozen of each sex-and follows the episodes of the music as if he were charting a graph. Yet, where Gershwin's music ultimately degenerates into appealing but theoretically unrelated vignettes, Robbins' dance is unified with a tight...
...weekend, with three more premieres to come, Robbins had very strong entries. For opening night he created a gossamer duet for Darci Kistler and Ib Andersen to the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 1. The dancers seem to be skating-two very young lovers etching their joy on a pond by moonlight. This is a charming little lyric that never takes itself, or figure skating, seriously. Still, in the subtle use of half-and three-quarter-point work for the radiant Kistler, Robbins manages to give toe shoes the rocking balance of a skate blade...