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...years ago, journalist John Fraser and photographer Eve Arnold undertook to cover a season (1986-87) with the American Ballet Theatre: the rehearsals, the tour, the filming of the Herbert Ross movie Dancers in Italy. Their achievement is that they manage to animate the dailiness of backstage life from the point of view of both the artistic management, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the dancers. Fraser's prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies...
...cameras love Baryshnikov, but the key to this book's success is Fraser's total sympathy with this complex artist. Fraser helped Baryshnikov break away from a Soviet tour group in 1974, and he seems to have won his complete trust. Usually reticent, Baryshnikov speaks with stinging intimacy of his mother's suicide when he was twelve, broods about women (he loves American women but has difficulty living under the same roof with one) and gripes about the toils of fund raising. He also talks -- without the least defensiveness -- about one of his several goals: to be a giant-screen...
...film Dancers, a modern gloss on the classic Giselle. Less than half the troupe's dancers were selected; for the rest, rejection amounted to a devastating appraisal of their entire season. When corps member Julie Kent, 17 and exquisite, won the ingenue role, angry charges of unfairness increased. Fraser notes that when the movie was finished and Kent's disastrous speaking voice squeaked through the land, tempers cooled. Comments Fraser: "Never underestimate the balm of sheer malice...
Mary Laborde and Andrea Fraser also rode for Harvard...
...novice round, freshman Susan Andersen led the way with a first-place finish in the Level 5 division. Andrea Fraser won her Level 3 class. Freshman Samantha Merton finished in second place in Level 4, while Diane Ortiz placed fifth in the same division. Bridget Bailey rounded out the novice round with a sixth-place finish in Level...