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...JOFFREY BALLET. For its New York season, this troupe is on a youth kick, with brand-new ballets from young choreographers Christopher d'Amboise, Alonzo King, Charles Moulton and company member Edward Stierle. Through March...
...sets, and the Houston Ballet will move the family into a turn-of-the-century farmhouse and scale down their bourgeois comforts (presents will be homey food). Sleighs, as usual, will be the favorite transport, but a new conveyance is gaining favor: the Atlanta and Boston ballets and the Joffrey, in Iowa City and Los Angeles, are pumping up hot-air balloons for this year's fantasy trips through space...
...orchestra seat to $60, and a healthy season yields no more than 35 new shows, only 12 of which are deemed successes. In dance alone, New York lost 55 world-class studios in the past four years. Others, including Martha Graham Dance, are considering following the example of the Joffrey Ballet by establishing second and third homes in other cities. That means a shorter season in New York. "This is the most expensive, difficult and competitive city for arts organizations," says David Resnicow, president of the Arts and Communications Counselors, which arranges sponsorships for corporations and cultural institutions...
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...