Word: makarova
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...Right now I have the feeling of late," said Martins last week, propped up on a litter of pillows to support his aching back, recently reinjured in class. The heavy work on On Your Toes, with Natalia Makarova and George de la Pena, is over now, but adjustments go on in Washington. In New York, there are the endless details of running a company: "I will finish my dancing career in a year or two," he says. "Then I'll throw those little slippers out the window! I have two movie offers that I haven't absolutely turned...
...Cable was the most ambitious and prestigious of the cultural cable services in the U.S., competing for a small if generally affluent audience of arts aficionados. CBS offered TV dramas featuring Sir Ralph Richardson and Peter O'Toole; a Swan Lake starring Ballerina Natalia Makarova; modern dance choreographed by Twyla Tharp; and Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven symphonies. Defining culture broadly, CBS also ran a probing nightly interview series, Signature, and a multi-episode look at modern history narrated by CBS Evening News Commentator Bill Moyers. More than 60% of the shows were produced by CBS, at costs ranging from...
...company in this century has produced talent as profligately as the Kirov, and certainly no foreign company has had so strong an influence on American dance. Pavlova, whose ceaseless touring virtually introduced ballet to the U.S.; Balanchine, creator of many of this century's choreographic masterpieces; Nureyev and Makarova, who set new standards for classical style; Baryshnikov, who is probably the greatest male dancer since Nijinsky and is in the process of turning the American Ballet Theater into a major classical ensemble-all these have emerged from the Kirov...
...company considerable mystique, but it is not the only reason why American ballet lovers are juggling airline deals to get to Paris. It is very difficult to see the Kirov; the troupe tours less than the rival Bolshoi, even in the U.S.S.R. Since it has lost three superstars (Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov) in 20 years, the company has been kept home at times for security reasons (the last U.S. tour was in 1964). After Baryshnikov's departure, it was rumored that the Kirov had deteriorated and that morale was low. Those difficulties, if they existed, seem, on the basis...
Meaning business meant dealing fairly and sometimes toughly with the principals, the stars whose magnetism sells tickets. Few, if any, expected Baryshnikov to be appointed, and they were vocal in their misgivings about the leadership of a young Russian superstar. But they all stayed on: Natalia Makarova, Cynthia Gregory, Marline van Hamel, Marianna Tcherkassky, Fernando Bujones, Anthony Dowell. To them Misha's great gift is secure performance schedules, which have replaced last-minute fly-ins and broken promises of big evenings...