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...America's top women, they showed that they can now hold their own with anyone in the world. That includes the absent Soviets, who defeated the Rumanians in the 1983 world championships and whose top gymnast, Natalia Yurtchenko, would have been a favored contender for individual honors in these Olympics. Julianne McNamara is the best there is on the uneven bars. Her line is as perfect as a ballerina's, and she flows so lightly from one bar to the next, one movement to another, that the bars sing for her. She got a 10 to prove...
Tuesday night's offering opened with "paquita," a revival of a ballet choreographed by Marius petipa, that was reinterpreted by Natalia Makareova. The dance tells the story of paquita. Who as a child was rescued from a massacre by gypsies, and who years later, while travelling and dancing with the gypsy band, returns to her home in the Spanish valley town of Sargossa and is reunited with her family. Although the plot sounds exciting the dance itself did not leave one enthused. The leading dancer, Martine van Hamel, displayed technical expertise although her partner, patrick Bissel, looked lost and confused...
...dancers, leaves the act, goes to school, and eventually becomes a music professor. As the story gets under way, he tries to persuade a famous Russian ballet company to perform a modern dance by one of his students, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The inevitable complications ensue. The prima ballerina (Natalia Makarova) makes advances. Poor Frankie Frayne, Junior's true love, despairs. The ballet's impresario discovers the professor's terrible secret-that he lives to dance-and talks him into starring in the climactic number himself...
While dancing in a revival of On Your Toes at Washington's Kennedy Center, Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 42, heard the crash too late. Two lengthy pipes used as scenery ballast fell to the stage, striking the dancer. Dr. Max Cohen, 42, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine, who had been sitting front row center, treated her for a fractured shoulder blade and a 3½-in. gash across the scalp. "She is in some ways fortunate to have survived," says Cohen. "It could easily have been more serious." Makarova will probably require...
...Right now I have the feeling of late," said Martins last week, propped up on a litter of pillows to support his aching back, recently reinjured in class. The heavy work on On Your Toes, with Natalia Makarova and George de la Pena, is over now, but adjustments go on in Washington. In New York, there are the endless details of running a company: "I will finish my dancing career in a year or two," he says. "Then I'll throw those little slippers out the window! I have two movie offers that I haven't absolutely turned...