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...night before the birth of her first child, Russian-born Ballerina Natalia Makarova was at the barre. And the day after? "I was doing stretching exercises in bed." Now that Son Andrei Michael (named after Prince Andrei in War and Peace) is three months old, Makarova, who is married to San Francisco Businessman Edward Karkar, is in Manhattan practicing for her May 10 return to the American Ballet Theater. Dancing, she says, is "more of a joy now than ever. It's more of a challenge." Between rehearsals, Makarova, 37, squeezes in time with Andrei...
...income alone is staggering. He now earns $4,000 or more a performance. In his new job the pay is $800 a week. As for Balanchine, 74, he has successfully kept any system of stars or "guest artists" out of his tightly controlled company. Other famous dancers, Natalia Makarova, Cynthia Gregory and Rudolf Nureyev among them, have made public hints through the years that they would love to work with Balanchine; the answer has been silence...
...moving into the class of the finest ballerinas: New York City Ballet's Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, A.B.T.'s Natalia Makarova and Cynthia Gregory; and Gelsey is six years younger than the youngest of these. Her stage presence fuses contraries?strength and limpidity, control and abandon, energy and ease. "It's difficult to talk about Gelsey," says Choreographer Antony Tudor, "because she is so right." Many try nonetheless. Rudolf Nureyev commends her: "She has that beautiful fluidity in her movements and an incredible strength for such a small girl." Mikhail Baryshnikov notes that "she advances from performance to performance...
BORN. To Natalia Makarova, 37, Russian ballerina who defected to the West in 1970, and Edward Karkar, 45, an electronics manufacturer: a son, their first child; in San Francisco. Name: Andre Michel...
...Children of Theater Street are, in fact, the students of Leningrad's Vaganova Institute, perhaps the most distinguished school of the dance in the world (its graduates include Pavlova, Nijinsky, Balanchine, Nureyev, Makarova and Baryshnikov). This earnest documentary, which never quite gets up on point, offers a comprehensive view of the life and hard work of present-day students at the institute. Along the way there are trots through the school's history and considerable crosscutting to onstage performances by the great Kirov company, for which the school supplies dancers, and to the more experimental Maly company, also...