Word: nureyev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH ALL THE SUBTLETY of drivers who slow their cars and gape at roadside accidents, critics write about the aging of Rudolf Nureyev. Like particularly patient vultures, they have circled for years, nothing and describing every sloppy move, every step not letter-perfect, every effort less than wrenching. It is true: Nureyev looks worse today than he did ten years ago, or even five years...
This week Nureyev is performing nightly with the Boston Ballet in his own production of Don Quixote. Although watching him is still a thrill, his technical shortcomings are especially conspicuous in the role of Basilio. This romantic lead requires a more blithe, more innocently carefree personality than comes naturally to Rudolf Nureyev the world-wise and world-weary. Nureyev's cockiness and arrogance overpower principal dancer Marie-Christine Mouis (who alternates the role of Kitri-Dulcinea with Laura Young): in his arms, she seems nervous, skittish, more than a trifle unsure of her suitor's affections...
...Rudi and I dancing together was not a big deal, but pure tongue-in-cheek fun," says Mikhail Baryshnikov, 33, of his first appearance with Countryman Rudolf Nureyev, 43. Though they are longtime rivals, each responded with a hearty da when Choreographer Paul Taylor suggested that they pair up at the opening night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando...
There a photographer cap tured Mr. B. with the 8-ft. rara avis: certainly ballet's oddest couple since Nureyev teamed with Miss Piggy in Swine Lake...
...monthlong Manhattan engagement of the new Makarova and Company ballet, which opened last week, gives dance on Broadway a slightly new turn. Rudolf Nureyev has frequently dropped in on the Great White Way, but always surrounded by a definitely subordinate cast of professionals. Natalia Makarova, probably the world's prima ballerina, aimed both higher and lower. She attracted a stunning array of top ballet stars: Fernando Bujones, Anthony Dowell, Cynthia Gregory, Denys Ganio, Elisabetta Terabust, Karen Kain and Peter Schaufuss. But to fill out the ranks, Makarova raided ballet schools for 29 youngsters, almost all lacking professional experience...