Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First pitcher to fracture a rib while watching a runner steal second base-Craig Swan of the New York Mets, struck in the back by Catcher Ron Hodges' errant throw, a feat reminiscent of Casey Stengel's original Amazin' Mets...
...first goal is better classical dancing, Baryshnikov's second is better mime and "character dances." These usually appear in full-length works like Petipa's Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Though they are often polonaises or czardas, they are not folk dances but theatrical steps that must be performed with panache. It is a European style that Americans must learn. Explains Baryshnikov: "Classical dancing means moving through the rules and trying to extend them a little. In character dancing you don't stop until someone says, 'That's bad taste.' It's show...
Character dances are not the only thing he has revised in the classics. Baryshnikov has in effect re-edited Giselle. More controversial is his staging of Swan Lake, a project that he considers "in transition." But he has already made major changes in the romantic second act and, of course, pepped up the character dancing...
When time and money permit, Baryshnikov wants an entirely new production of Swan Lake. But that is for the future. If his first season as director has been conservative, Baryshnikov has given hints about where he will be going. Paul Taylor's Airs was a hit at the Met last week, and it seems likely that A.B.T. will try more works from this modern choreographer. Next season there will be several new one-act ballets; one or more may come from the company's Choreographic Workshop, which has commissioned ballets from six promising choreographers. Says Baryshnikov: "Sooner...
...power of detailed synthesis was not the end of drawing, however, only the means. Leonardo could bring a steely exactitude and transparent freshness of observation to a botanical drawing, like the star-of-Bethlehem plant that he drew as a study for his lost painting of Leda and the swan. Yet the consciously serpentine wreathing of its leaves proclaims the image to be formed as much by style as by the impulse to "objective" description. The two work perfectly together. To see why, one may look at the most famous of his water studies, the image of water gushing from...