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...corridor outside the Tampa courtroom. But an all-white jury had just acquitted four white former Dade County police officers of charges relating to the death of her son, Arthur McDuffie, 33, associate manager of an insurance office, who was fatally beaten last December after an eight-minute police chase for speeding on his motorcycle. News of the verdict flew through the black sections of the Miami area, and within a few hours an angry black crowd gathered outside the Dade County Public Safety Department headquarters. Soon it numbered more than 5,000. The besieged Dade County police radioed...
...tribute was imaginative and moving, and was a fair precis of the achievements of Chase and Smith at A.B.T. The company has kept alive the full-length classics, like Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty. This season it will present Natalia Makarova's staging of the complete La Bayadere, one of Russian Choreographer Marius Petipa's influential creations, a ballet virtually unknown in the U.S. except for the famous last act. Similarly, the works of Fokine (Petrouchka, Les Sylphides, Firebird) are preserved in authentic stagings and style...
...capered through Fancy Free, De Mille created Three Virgins and Fall River Legend, and Antony Tudor made dance dramas like Pillar of Fire. More recently A.B.T. has performed works by Eliot Feld and Glen Tetley and reaped a huge hit in Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove. Chase has nurtured Americans like Cynthia Gregory and welcomed the Soviet comets, Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov. The newest arrival, Alexander Godunov, hurled himself through the rousing pas de deux from Le Corsaire as a highlight of the gala...
...A.B.T. dancing has been inspired or even precise; the company's relentless touring schedule alone would preclude that. The corps is capable of disciplined ensemble work and, on other occasions, some ragged footwork and wayward arms. The star system provides Americans with standard-setting performances, but not even Chase can always find a way to make virtuosos like Makarova, Gregory and Gelsey Kirkland flourish in harmony-or even appear in the same city. At curtain time, there was the usual clutter of telegrams. One began, "Rosalynn and I." A message from Baryshnikov, who was in Paris, burbled...
Then the real Lucia Chase finally appeared (only she knows how old she is, but she looked effervescent and radiant in a fluffy pink dress). Alone in the spotlight, she seemed ill at ease and quickly beckoned all the dancers out from the wings. She hugged old comrades and youngsters just up from the corps. Later she likened them all to her clan...