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...nudity scenes of the dance involve one maleand one female dancer...
Among the ballerinas, Yulia Makhalina seems to have pride of place, having danced the first performance of both Swan Lake and Cinderella. She is the latest exemplar of a type of dancer Vinogradov likes: tall, elegantly slender, chilly and lacking the turned-out hip position most classical dancers have. Makhalina will remind audiences of Galina Mezentseva, the director's beautiful but glacial favorite in the '80s. Younger ballerinas are developing, especially the limpid Zhanna Ayupova, who redeems Cinderella with a shy, radiant, technically assured performance in the lead role...
...friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film scripts, the grandson of a Jewish store owner who becomes a Hollywood big shot, and a former hippie turned...
...suite contains one passage of new choreography-for LaFosse, as Tony, to Something's Coming. It is a buoyant, flying solo. Darting in all directions, trying out the paths his life might take, LaFosse again shows he is an ideal Robbins dancer, whether on Broadway or in ballet. The other standout is Nancy Ticotin, who plays Anita, Chita Rivera's role in the original production. A Broadway gypsy diva, Ticotin gives an all-out, earthy performance...
DIED. ALEXANDER BORIS GODUNOV, 45, dancer-actor; from the effects of acute alcoholism; in West Hollywood, California. After 13 years with the Bolshoi ballet, Godunov defected to the West in 1979. For three years his graceful yet powerful dancing was a fixture at the American Ballet Theater. But after a falling out with artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov, Godunov turned to film, playing a farmer in Witness (1985) and a terrorist in Die Hard...