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...Turning Point-Herbert Ross does a great job directing this story of the ballet, faded hopes and lost youth. Shirley Maclaine, as the one-time dancer who gave it up, and Anne Bancroft as her friend who went on to fame, provide the firepower, and Leslie Browne and Mikhail Baryshnikov supply the looks and the dancing talent. A fine film, and Bancroft has never been better since The Graduate...
...George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, in apparent distress, weeping in an office. When he rushed to help, Kirstein, 71, waved him away. "These are tears of joy," he said. "Baryshnikov is joining our company." At the American Ballet Theater it was the dancers who wept when Mikhail Baryshnikov gathered them together after last Wednesday's performance to say goodbye: "It is now or never. I have to work with Mr. B." For A.B.T. Baryshnikov's leap to Balanchine is a profound loss; "Misha" was their inspiration as well as their star, who embodied the best...
...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. Her taste and artistic outlook are constantly developing, and none of us can predict how far she will go." Dancer Edward Villella singles out the essence of a performance: "Those steel-like legs that are doing the most fantastic technical feats...
When the box office opened for the American Ballet Theater's New York spring season, $52,000 worth of tickets were snapped up on the first day-a record for A.B.T.'s Manhattan home, the Metropolitan Opera House. The allure of Mikhail Baryshnikov's new Don Q certainly helped, and the presence of stars like Gelsey Kirkland in A.B.T.'s galaxy did no harm. But other U.S. dance companies are also enjoying a boom. Indeed by almost any measure, dance has become the fastest-growing of all the performing arts...
...exactly John Travolta. Nor is he Mikhail Barishnykov. And no, definitely not Fred Astaire. But basketball co-captain elect Glenn Fine is most certainly a dancer, and he cuts a classy style all his own when he steps onto the hardwood floor for the Crimson...