Word: joffrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concerning the First Lady, whom Deaver describes as his best friend, he seems blind to an unseemly implication when he writes, "Nancy raised half a million dollars herself for the Joffrey Ballet, and ((Son)) Ron turned out to be one of its rising stars." Despite Nancy's attempts to downplay her influence on her husband's decisions, Deaver confirms her role in the firings of James Watt and Donald Regan...
...long as he insists on performing, he will unbalance his company in the effort to provide for himself. In this country, audiences are accustomed to more stringently edited programs, whether among the concentrated riches at New York City Ballet or the more eclectic American Ballet Theatre and Joffrey Ballet. Americans like to see dancers' qualities through their interpretation of choreography. With the Paris troupe, one often had to try to find the dancer in spite of the material...
...filled with wit and invention and a certain brash confidence. At 29, Morris is the hottest young choreographer in the country. His Seattle-based troupe of 13 dancers is in heavy demand, and other signs of success are visible: bookings in Europe, commissions from established ballet companies (Boston, the Joffrey), a program on next season's PBS Dance in America series, invitations to pump some life into grand opera productions. (Morris choreographed the Dance of the Seven Veils on alternating sopranos in the current Seattle Opera production of Strauss's Salome...
...After sweating without stardom in the ranks of the Joffrey Ballet and trying to carve a career as a free-lance journalist, Ron Reagan, 27, has unabashedly decided to seize the advantages his surname affords. "People told me I'd be a fool not to," he says. "If people insist it's an unfair advantage, at some point you have to say, 'Who cares?' " His risky and risque performance as guest host of S.N.L. displayed the stage polish that runs in his family, aiming him toward a new career as a television personality...
Cranko's Romeo is nearly as much a theater piece as a ballet. The second act, with its clowns and gypsies and with its great duel scene, is easily the best, and the Joffrey performs it with sweep and charging bravura. Elsewhere there are difficulties, some of which should disappear as the company settles into the work. Right now the dancers have absurd ideas of rich life in the Renaissance. The men strut and pose, the ladies arch their backs so radically that they look poised for a back flip. An exception is Gerel Hilding, whose Tybalt has genuine authority...