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...checkered, financially precarious history, American Ballet Theater has probably had more downs than ups -but oh! is it up now. Last week, to celebrate its 35th anniversary year, Ballet Theater offered a glorious, fund-raising gala at the State Theater of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. No other company in the world could have brought together on one stage so many stars of so great a magnitude...
Swirling Sequence. At the gala, he appeared twice, the first time in the Don Quixote pas de deux with Noella Pontois, a soubrette-style dancer from the Paris Opéra Ballet. After one swirling sequence of pantherlike turns, he landed - not just on one knee as most dancers would, but on one knee with the other leg fully extended. It was a daring variant on a familiar bit of acrobatics, since Baryshnikov is quite likely to break an ankle if his timing is a split second...
...Monday night, the Players will present Compositions of Schumann, Saint-Saens, Beethoven and Berio in Sanders Theater at 8:30. This will be the last time this season to hear the group perform chamber works--next week's gala finale will feature a massive Schumann work for chorus and orchestra...
...giant becalmed cobras in spirals to the ceilings. Canal pilots, the skilled men who guide ships through the narrow canal, were flocking back from all over the world. The Suez Canal, once the vital link between the West and the East, was being prepared for this week's gala reopening, eight years to the day after its closing...
...builder constructs a 135-story office-building-cum-apartment house, but in cutting costs, his son-in-law installs a faulty wiring system that starts a small fire as soon as the first switch is thrown. The fire detection and sprinkler system malfunction, of course, and, as a gala party of 300 bejewelled and tuxedoed guests gathers in the penthouse...