Word: pas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bride choked a bit on the sacramental wine, and one elderly babushka-topped guest kept protesting the presence of a photographer. Otherwise the San Francisco marriage of Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 35, and Electronics Executive Edward Karkar, 43, came off like a perfect pas de deux. Among the guests: Dancers Alexander Minz and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, like Makarova, had once belonged to the Soviet Union's Kirov Ballet. The bride, who had been married prior to her 1970 defection from the Kirov, did not bother with a honeymoon this time around. One day after the ceremonies, she began rehearsals...
...Giselle. The company's repertory combines the classical tradition and ethnic dance styles. Balanchine's neoclassic ballet Agon floats serenely alongside Geoffrey Holder's mysterious, pulsating Dougla and the virtuoso Russian display pas de deux from Le Corsaire. There is, however, no Giselle. "You'd be surprised how many people feel that because we're not doing Swan Lake that we are not a classical company," Mitchell told TIME'S Rosemarie Tauris. "We don't have enough people or finances to do big 19th century ballets. D.T.H. is not about...
...Concerto Barocco. "Everyone who has seen Balanchine recognizes his chain of dancers weaving in and out and around each other," says Anastos. "So why not do a chain where someone gets stuck right in the middle and can't get out?" In the dazzling finale of the Corsaire pas de deux, Bassae/Karpova completes all the pirouettes and whipping one-leg turns in the traditional ver sion, then hurls his chunky body through the air and alights on his partner's shoulder in the classic manner. Most of the Trock dancers take class daily, some, like Antony Bassae...
...City Center Jeffrey Ballet invited Tharp to put on Deuce Coupe, a freestyle piece matching up pas de bourrees and the boogaloo to the sun-and-surf music of the Beach Boys...
...such is the strength and dynamism of these dancers' stage personalities. Bare to the waist and clad only in white tights, Baryshnikov offered a tortured Hamlet rather than a brooding one, all quicksilver passion. Kirkland's Ophelia was an innocent, ethereal waif - bruised and bewildered. In a pas de deux with Baryshnikov, their bodies seemed perfectly attuned, suggesting that incandescent union of talents and temperaments they have displayed as partners in better works. Bruhn's Claudius was a cold, imperious, lecherous king. It is to Neumeier's credit that his choreography asks Bruhn to do more...