Word: fischl
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...five years. But that is no big deal: the schools run by the San Francisco Ballet (587 students), the Minnesota Dance Theater (950) and the Ballet West in Salt Lake City (1,000) have doubled in size. Male students, once rare, are becoming more common. Says Charles Fischl, general manager of the Atlanta Ballet: "Americans are more interested in motion and fitness. Ballet is grueling, and people have always admired athletic ability." The success of the film The Turning Point will doubtless bring more recruits; one Chicago school reported a 25% rise in applications after the movie opened there...
...other comer is Atlanta. Although the city has had an amateur dance company since 1929, it was nearly defunct in 1972. Then Chuck Fischl, an energetic New Yorker with a theatrical background, was brought in as general manager. He and Artistic Director Robert Barnett decided that the company should turn professional and expand. Fischl, now only 28, began promoting ballet throughout Georgia. Result: the company, which once had to venture as far as Alaska to find audiences, now runs two summer schools in Georgia and has established homes away from home in Savannah, Athens and Augusta...
...million, the company has built a solid repertory of 41 works, but it still finds that educating an audience can be difficult. A Swan Lake fills Atlanta's 4,400-seat Fox Theater, but modern works at the 856-seat Alliance Theater play to half a house. Yet Fischl sees signs of growing sophistication: "We still get people who giggle at the tights, but the number is dropping, and people are accepting them as just another uniform...
...plastic surgeons for facelifts. All in all, about 250,000 Americans had plastic surgery last year, female patients outnumbering males by 20 to 1. But the ratio is rapidly changing. "I have noticed a definite upsurge in the number of male patients in recent years," says Dr. Robert Fischl, a Manhattan plastic surgeon. "About one in four of my patients...