Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the bicycle is "the only first-class transportation left to humanity" is to insult horse owners. Horses can reproduce, travel through mud, jump obstacles and return affection. I would love to see a steel frame and wheels perform this...
...premiums for Bay Area physicians by 200% to 300%. Most physicians reluctantly purchased at least temporary-and limited-coverage, but few of the area's anesthesiologists, whose premiums rose from $5,377 to as high as $22,704 per year, renewed their policies; the rest refused to perform nonessential work...
...pains to point out that his was not a political defection: "If only the Kirov had permitted me to perform with other companies in the West. If only they had asked foreign choreographers to compose works for us in which the Western contemporary approach to ballet is being explored." The actual escape in Toronto was typically daring. Baryshnikov could have walked out of his hotel room. Instead, he waited until after his last performance, then dashed through a crowd of well-wishers. He was nearly run over but made it safely to a waiting car a couple of blocks away...
...provide the backdrop for 16 world premieres at New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival. Galas will be presented by Martha Graham, New York City Ballet and, in the summer, American Ballet Theater. Two foreign companies - the U.S.S.R.'s Bolshoi and Germany's Stuttgart Ballet - will perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. One wonders, in fact, if Diaghilev's Paris or Petipa's St. Petersburg ever had it so good...
...music. "In ballet there has to be something new every season," Balanchine explains calmly. "Also, Ravel was a Basque and all the Basques dance." Because the company cannot afford to close down even for a week, the new dances must be created and rehearsed while the company continues to perform the 36 ballets now in repertory. Possibly no other troupe but Mr. B.'s is capable of such labor. Balanchine claims that American dancers have a greater ability to memorize than Europeans do. "Of course, in Europe people go out for two-hour lunches and come back groggy...