Word: makarova
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...weeks ago, Gelsey Kirkland, 22, stepped onstage at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. She was dancing her first Giselle, the role that is the ultimate test for a ballerina. When the curtain came down, Kirkland was established as America's newest prima ballerina. She evoked memories of Makarova's lyrical lightness and the authority of Plisetskaya. But her speed is her own. Gelsey on points flies like a swallow...
...official disapproval back home. His preference for clothes-and chicks-from the West had been duly noted, and he believed that his mail was being censored. He might have tolerated such minor harassments, but artistic confinement was another matter. Like Nureyev and one of his current partners, Natalia Makarova, he began to need the challenge of new choreographic ideas. That was the main reason for self-exile from Russia. "We had to come to America," he says, "because the standards of dancing are the highest and the choreography beyond anywhere else...
...hungry to taste all the artistic pleasures he was denied at home, and some friends feel that he has grabbed for too much, too fast. But the selection of A.B.T. as his first home in the West, a choice made easier by Makarova's powerful desire to have him as a partner, is basically sound. The company, probably the best in the U.S., had repertory roles like Albrecht that Baryshnikov already knew, and could offer him new parts when he was ready. He has insisted on teaming not only with Makarova but also with Gelsey Kirkland...
...short, Misha has been placing great burdens on himself. Considering the obvious problems of adjusting to a new country, a new style of life, he probably should not have undertaken his month-long tour of Australia with Makarova last January. He badly sprained a tendon in his ankle while dancing the Don Quixote pas de deux in Sydney. He was able to finish the performance, but fainted after two curtain calls. The accident put him in bed and on crutches for weeks and still causes pain...
...with his heroic bursts of explosive movement, animal magnetism and sheer showmanship, not to say showboatery. Baryshnikov is a dancer of equal authority but far different style. He is short, and his slightly chunky body seems to belong to a superb athlete as well as an artist. He floated Makarova overhead as though she had no more substance than a chiffon gown. His phenomenal double turns in air and grands jetês were done with a breathtaking ease that did not call attention to itself. Yet he conveyed an almost electric impression of great power and speed, held...