Word: roles
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That is the effect that solo dancing should have. When it worked in this performance, it was usually because Elaine Bauer danced Princess Aurora (she alternated in the title role with Laura Young and Durine Alinova). Elegant, long-limbed and lean as a grasshopper, Bauer is easily the finest ballerina Boston's got. She is not a great dancer: the flow of near-perfect form is missing, and sometimes she moves with an awkward detachment from her body, hands and feet stiff as saucers. But unlike Laura Young, for example (who danced a typically colorless Princess Florise), Bauer focuses...
...Bauer's role in Sleeping Beauty includes one of the most infernally difficult sequences in the classical repertoire, the so-called Rose Adagio. It is a moment of psychological depth that is rare in 19th-century ballet. The princess stands poised on her 16th birthday between childhood and adulthood, between the parents whose presence she acknowledges reverently and the four suitors who dance with her in turn, between the festive court around her and the unfolding self-awareness within. Twice during the course of the Adagio, the ballerina must balance on one pointed toe for several minutes as she takes...
Aurora's is the only solo role that permits any real dramatic subtlety; the other soloists are either stock characters or vehicles of sprightly choreography, with only the vaguest relations to plot. Anamarie Sarazin's Evil Fairy was a gratifyingly serpentine siren, complete with green dragon wings, gaudy sequins and decadent black stockings a la Toulouse-Lautrec; the wedding guests, from Tom Thumb (Tony Catanzaro) to a White Cat (Debra Mili) were equally charming and improbable...
...dine so lavishly, now shun him. He lives in a rented house, his two Washington mansions seized by the IRS for unpaid taxes. Aside from the federal marshals who act as his bodyguards, his main companion is Tandy Dickinson, a blonde divorcee who in happier times played the role of hostess at his parties. They have been seen dining together at the Palm Restaurant, and were spotted standing in line for a movie...
...children who were seen at least occasionally by their real parents seemed far less troubled in their new settings. Conclude the researchers: "It is better for the child to have to cope with real parents who are obviously flawed ... than to reckon with fantasy parents who play an undermining role on the deeper level of the child's subconscious...