Word: nureyev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Children of Theater Street are, in fact, the students of Leningrad's Vaganova Institute, perhaps the most distinguished school of the dance in the world (its graduates include Pavlova, Nijinsky, Balanchine, Nureyev, Makarova and Baryshnikov). This earnest documentary, which never quite gets up on point, offers a comprehensive view of the life and hard work of present-day students at the institute. Along the way there are trots through the school's history and considerable crosscutting to onstage performances by the great Kirov company, for which the school supplies dancers, and to the more experimental Maly company, also...
...artiste, and Baryshnikov's limited role makes no undue demands on his fledgling talents in front of a camera. His virility and sheer presence suffice for the portrayal of the compulsive narcissist stud in the company, and his dancing will predictably astound moviegoers unfamiliar with the awesome talents of Nureyev's successor. While Browne is relegated to the imposing shadow cast by Baryshnikov's virtuoso skills. When they team together in some of the dance sequences, she conveys the confusion and flighty emotions of a young adult straddling the threshold of fame with an assurance not expected from an actress...
...asides about dancers. Of Suzanne Farrell's second performance in Bournonville Divertissements, she writes: "She was less noticeably nervous (she'd stopped bouncing her wrists, an infallible sign)." Of Edward Villella in Pulcinella: "He goes through the piece like a speeding crab, as loose as Groucho." Of Nureyev in Le Corsaire: "At the end ... he slams himself to the floor at the ballerina's feet and yearns upward from the small of his back. No one else does it so well." One is ready to go out at once and see Nureyev in this weary...
...zone victory dance, scooting past Chicago Bear defenders, then performing the N.F.L.'s first dwarf dunk-a triumphant spike over the goal posts. The Baltimore Colts' Howard Stevens (5 ft. 5 in., 162 Ibs. and the smallest man in the N.F.L.), the Nureyev of the sidelines, dancing beyond the grasp of lumbering would-be tacklers. The Atlanta Falcons' Rolland Lawrence (5 ft. 9¾ in., 178 Ibs.), a hawk masquerading as a defensive back, swooping in front of half-foot taller tight ends for five interceptions. The Los Angeles Rams' Harold Jackson...
...subject enthusiastically approved of the portrait that went on display at Manhattan's Coe Kerr Gallery. "It makes me look as jolly as you could after a hard day's work," said Dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Artist Jamie Wyeth had dogged his footsteps, making sketches "before, during and after" each performance of the three ballets Nureyev performed on Broadway last winter. As for Jamie, he had second thoughts about the portrait. The fur coat suddenly looked odd. "I mean, he doesn't wear it at the bar," he objected, then reconsidered. "But I was interpretive in my painting...