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...WORDS ARE THOSE of a member of the New York City Ballet, in Joseph H. Mazo's Dance Is A Contact Sport. Amid the current wave of books on dance (the publishing industry is finally beginning to catch up with the box offices) Mazo's book and another recent entry, Franklin Stevens' Dance As Life stand out for their frank and balanced portrayals of daily life in America's two leading ballet companies, both of which also number among the half-dozen or so greatest companies in he world. For those who have studied dance, and wondered what the professional...
...Mazo does so with particular flair. Without being too gossipy, his brash, kaleidoscopic view of the NYCB's Spring 1973 season is as thorough as a documentary. Mazo captured what would never have been spoken before a camera. His style is chatty: George Balanchine, founder and ballet master of the Company and probably the world's finest choreographer, is "Mr.B.", after the fashion of the dancers; choreographer Jerome Robbins ("the resident monster") is "Jerry...
Choosing to focus on the company as a whole rather than on the leading dancers, Mazo describes the gruelling company class which begins each day, the hectic rehearsals, the technical preparation of the state, the performances, the union disputes, the endless financial problems. Mazo also recounts some of the tricks of the trade-how an emergency cast change can prove workable, for instance: "standing in the wings, you can hear dancers whispering instructions to their partners, smiling more widely than ever so the audience won't see their lips moving...
...crowd waited until 8:10 p.m. at which time a Law student called Mazo's room, and learned from Mazo's roommate that the appearance had been cancelled...
...Mazo himself was at Wellesley, listening to Eagleton, who had begun speaking out there at 7:30 p.m. under the auspices of Forum, a Wellesley student activities group. Stephen Nelson, a Forum staff member said, "Eagleton is supposed to be here until 9:30: he's been scheduled for several weeks...