Word: nureyev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selected guests, including Washington's Government and business elite. They will view the ballet Rodeo and excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie and hear John Denver sing his country songs. One Washington wag suggested that Teng would probably prefer a show performed exclusively by Russian defectors: Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and ex-Moscow Philharmonic Conductor Kiril Kondra-shin, for example...
...lucky break, to bring on those tacky and awful boomerang fish). Miss Piggy has a wandering eye, however, and if the week's guest star happens to be a good-looking man, she latches onto him. After dancing the stirring pas de deux from Swine Lake with Rudolph Nureyev, she stalked the poor fellow into a steam bath and drove him forth with his towel askew...
...Bravo" to Paul Gray for his outstanding article on Gelsey Kirkland [May 1] and on the dance explosion in the U.S. I, too, am a fairly recent convert to the world of dance, and I can still vividly recall my first Sleeping Beauty at the Met, with Nureyev and Fonteyn. All it takes is one superb, electric performance like that to turn anyone into a ballet fanatic...
...earns $4,000 or more a performance. In his new job the pay is $800 a week. As for Balanchine, 74, he has successfully kept any system of stars or "guest artists" out of his tightly controlled company. Other famous dancers, Natalia Makarova, Cynthia Gregory and Rudolf Nureyev among them, have made public hints through the years that they would love to work with Balanchine; the answer has been silence...
...Makarova and Cynthia Gregory; and Gelsey is six years younger than the youngest of these. Her stage presence fuses contraries?strength and limpidity, control and abandon, energy and ease. "It's difficult to talk about Gelsey," says Choreographer Antony Tudor, "because she is so right." Many try nonetheless. Rudolf Nureyev commends her: "She has that beautiful fluidity in her movements and an incredible strength for such a small girl." Mikhail Baryshnikov notes that "she advances from performance to performance. Her taste and artistic outlook are constantly developing, and none of us can predict how far she will go." Dancer Edward...