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Ballet High With the Bejart |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Jane Rigney |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1986 |
| Size: 869 Words, 4,957 Characters |
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Until just recently, the dance form has been riding the crest of a wave of popular interest. Someone, probably a critic, dubbed this explosion the "dance boom."
This boom might have begun with the excited interest in Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, continuing until about 1981, when dance attendance started falling off. Perhaps those who climbed on the bandwagon to catch the flash and fire of the young Nureyev, or Mikhail Baryshnikov in his prime, never really had much interest in the art of dance apart from its superstars, and have fallen away. But the boom also garnered many n...
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...allet, which dared to play a major New York house armed with nothing but its own fine dancers.
Thus New York could see Dupond, who is superb, dance "Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul," but not Gil Roman, whose interpretation of the title role is markedly different, but equally worth seeing. The loss is ours. Not everyone can afford to travel to Belgium to see what the company does at home.
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