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...image of the firebird is one of the best known in ballet: a ballerina in a fantastical costume of glitter and feathers soaring through space in split leaps. The firebird most people have in mind, unconsciously or not, is Maria Tallchief, for whom George Balanchine created a dazzling version of the Stravinsky score in 1949. But Balanchine was not Stravinsky's first collaborator. In 1910 the composer and Choreographer Michel Fokine had worked out their conception at the piano...
Less than seven years ago, Arthur Mitchell was performing with New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, the first black principal dancer in an American company. His fame grew as he partnered all of Balanchine's great ballerinas, from Maria Tallchief to Suzanne Farrell. Then in April 1968, after the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, he decided that it was time to do something for black people. His first move was to approach the eminent American dance teacher Karel Shook, then ballet master of the Netherlands National Ballet...
...prepared to return to the New York City Ballet. Nearly six years ago, the willowy star was that rarest of rarities, a classical dancer with a chorus girl's legs. She was also Director George Balanchine's special protegee, rumored to follow Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil Le Clereq as the fifth Mrs. B. Then suddenly she married a fellow company member, Paul Mejia, 27, and, in the face of Balanchine's obvious displeasure, went into exile with the Maurice Bejart company in Brussels. However, three months ago, Balanchine, 70, was professionally spurned...
...arduous assignment of dancing all four heroines (La Stella, Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta) went to Cynthia Gregory, 27. Although Gregory emerged only last year as a star of the company, she has already been hailed by Dancer-Choreographer Erik Bruhn as "the greatest American ballerina since Maria Tallchief ." Dancer Gregory brought to Hoffmann an enchanting grace and elan worthy of a Giselle, testifying to her thoroughgoing professionalism. Swedish Dancer Jonas Kage, 22, struggled noticeably as the hero, merely indicating that he was not the only one incapable of getting Hoffmann off the ground...
...Caldwell, D.F.A., actress. Maria Tallchief, D.F.A., ballerina...