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Nureyev, by contrast, is characteristically imprecise and daring; he has wild flair, but his style is messy. His balance fails him at crucial instants, his turns leave him looking slightly dizzy, and--worst of all--he seems oddly disinterested in Mouis, as if he'd rather be off somewhere making...
FIRST STAGED in 1970 with the Australian Ballet, Nureyev's production is unexceptional but pleasing. Hardly stylistically daring, it contains the usual number of street scenes with crowd entertainment, pas de deux, dream sequences, and principal solos. The only departure from traditional ballet is the augmented role of the male...
THERE ARE, if recent productions are any indication, two ways to stage The Pirates of Penzance today. One is to find a couple of sultry rock and roll sexpots to sing the leads, tinkering around with Sir Arthur Sullivan's score a little to make the romantic Victorian solos sound...
And when the team split, Astaire kept doing it all, on his own. Though his dancing partners in the next two decades included such game gals as Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn, Astaire's most famous dance numbers were now his solos. And...
The musical problems that apparently plagued the group earlier on their current American tour are gone; Ron Wood and Keith Richards started every number in the same key. But what is left is a raunchy gruffness: stinging solos bashing into bass and drums; sixth and seventh Stones Ian Stewart and...