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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gypsies, and who years later, while travelling and dancing with the gypsy band, returns to her home in the Spanish valley town of Sargossa and is reunited with her family. Although the plot sounds exciting the dance itself did not leave one enthused. The leading dancer, Martine van Hamel, displayed technical expertise although her partner, patrick Bissel, looked lost and confused. He did not dance energetically, which only served to dampen the dance's already slow-moving place...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Comme Ci, Comme Ca | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...them out onstage in important roles. His choices-among them, Susan Jaffe, 21, Cheryl Yeager, 25, Robert La Fosse, 23, Peter Fonseca, 25-are strong ones, but it takes years to develop a finished principal dancer. Of the familiar stars, Fernando Bujones, 28, Cynthia Gregory, 36, and Martine van Hamel, 37, are in glistening form and, with Baryshnikov, often carry the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...been transcribed in Labanotation (a system of symbols for preserving choreography). Symphonie Concertante is a reclaimed treasure. Set to Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for violin, viola and orchestra, it casts two ballerinas as the solo instruments, the brilliant Gregory as the violin, the mellower Van Hamel as the viola and surrounds them with a corps tracing patterns and recombining in gentle, eloquent classical phrases. Designer Theoni V. Aldredge has fashioned what must be the most beautiful tutus in years, and when the ballet fills the stage it becomes a superplum paradise. Symphonie Concertante is the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...dance the socks off Interludes, a bland effort set to Brahms' Serenade in A Major, Opus 16 by San Francisco Choreographer John McFall, 36. Lynne Taylor-Corbett, whose Great Galloping Gottschalk was a hit last year, has a moody new piece, Estuary; once again the performances, by Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell, burnish a dull concept. Van Hamel, a dancer of wit and grace, has an even murkier assignment in Jiri Kylian's Torso, a grim, roughhouse pas de deux with Clark Tippet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...despite this strict regimen, "he was almost always willing to go out for a beer of a cup of coffee," said Matt Hamel, a close friend of King's who graduated last year...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: That's Incredible! | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

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