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Tackling Taylor: The Washington Ballet Company Goes Modern |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Alexandra Tomalonis |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,723 Words, 10,767 Characters |
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America is filled with regional ballet companies eager to achieve instant world-class status by staging scaled-down versions of nineteenth-century classics like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, often with less than world-class results. But some companies choose another road. The Washington Ballet Company proudly retains its chamber size (nineteen full-time members and three apprentices this year) and its emphasis on contemporary neoclassical choreography. Mary Day, founder and artistic director of the troupe, has always tried to fashion as individual a repertoire as possible, staying away from overfamiliar works, and commissioning as many new ballets as the budget allows. If the company has a goal, it is to perform only works it can do well and can afford to mount. Day has been as insistent-...
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...erworks. Based as it is in a town notorious for its lack of support for dance, the company's policy of fiscal responsibility has been a necessity. Day has never let it interfere with her standards; her policy of only doing what she can afford could well be emulated by others. Above all, the Washington Ballet proves that concentrating on substance and style is appealing to dancers and audiences.
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