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...described his trepidation at leaving his silent art even temporarily. "I usually don't have the courage," confessed Nureyev, "but I arrange things so that I can't escape." Nervous or not, he apparently intends to keep at it. Next spring he will team up with French Mime Marcel Marceau, who will play the devil, and make a film of L 'Histoire...
Pieces and Quiet. Pocket Mime Theater, 67 Newbury Street. Previews October...
...Anyone can begin to dance at Harvard and Radcliffe," claims a brochure on dance here, and while this may be true, things look, pretty bleak for the polished prima ballerina. Offerings in dance are eclectic (Russian conditioning, mime, kabuki) and the selection is very limited. But many women (and a steadily increasing number of men) turn out to unwind twice a week in the afternoon beginning and intermediate modern dance classes in the Radcliffe Gym. Last year, the over-crowded, understaffed, ill-equipped gym was the scene of too many chaotic sessions; and so to facilitate teaching and ensure some...
Later in the program he was onstage alone in Vestris, a ballet created for him by Leningrad's Leonid Jacobson in 1969. The subject of this seven-minute solo is Auguste Vestris, a famous 18th century dancer and mime. In a powdered wig and white satin tunic, Baryshnikov went through a kaleidoscope of quicksilver impressions - an old man dancing a minuet, a woman praying, a girl flirting. It was funny. It was sad. Then it was funny again. It was acting of the highest order...
...music with yearning and power. Germany's Herbert Becker (Siegmund and Siegfried) is not the most passionate Heldentenor around, but he sings all the music-and that in itself is no small achievement-with taste and control. The character parts are well cast, particularly the dwarfs Alberich and Mime (Malcolm Rivers and Paul Crook) and the scheming Hagen (William Wildermann...