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Above all, what other company can display Mikhail Baryshnikov to better advantage? This incredible performer does things in ballet that have never been done before - and does them with such transparent ease that audiences gasp in disbelief. There is obvious preparation and buildup before other dancers launch into a series of jumps or jetés; Baryshnikov will have finished a dazzling double or even triple air turn almost before viewers are ready...
...time Mr. B. selected her to dance in Firebird two years later, dancing had become unbearably painful. "I had forced a great deal." She almost gave up. Instead, in an effort comparable to Rubinstein's retraining himself at age 45, Gelsey re-evaluated her technique. When Mikhail Baryshnikov (TIME cover, May 19) joined the American Ballet Theater last summer, she was Balanchine's major star. Still, when "Misha" asked her to be his partner, she was stunned: "Obviously, I said yes, but I can't even remember the words...
...Hills dinner given by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, the Shah and his Empress, along with 800 personal guests, attended a performance of the American Ballet Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Among the dancers onstage was ballet's newest superstar, Mikhail Baryshnikov (TIME...
...into the arc of one of his improbably sustained leaps-high, light, the leg beats blurring precision-he transcends the limits of physique and, it sometimes seems, those of gravity itself. If one goes by the gasps in the theater or the ecstasies of the critics, such moments turn Mikhail Baryshnikov, if not into a minor god, then into a major sorcerer...
...chested man, whose post-Republican beard lends him a faint resemblance to Fidel Castro, Hess spends most of his days in the warehouse that contains the office of Community Technology Inc., the self-help organization for which he serves as unpaid project coordinator. Surrounded by posters of Russian Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, Mexican Peasant Leader Emiliano Zapata and Revolutionary Pamphleteer Tom Paine (all of whom he admires "because they kept on doing their own sticky things until the world changed"), Hess pursues a variety of projects that more than make up in imagination what they may lack in immediate applicability...