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The Dancer Who Flew, A Memoir of Rudolf
Nureyev, by Linda Maybarduk
Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
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New York Times
Sunday, January 4, 1976
Clive Barnes |
On Graham, Louis and Béjart
...Graham has always had a certain mystic grasp of what I might call
passively romantic literature...It seems that Nathaniel Hawthorne's
strangely earthy puritanical novel "The Scarlet Letter" has attracted her as
a dance theme for a long time...Nureyev does his best to express this
tortured Puritan priest denouncing the adultery of which he himself had been
the victim - yes, he is a hypocrite and well as a hero- but the ballet
itself still does not quite jell...
One of Nureyev's excursions into the wilder shores of dance has been with
Murray Louis. He has had an interest in Louis for years; he likes that
particular musculature, that particular discipline and control...Now, in
("Moments") its third metamorphosis, during Murray Louis's own season at the
New York University Theater, it is being danced by Louis dancers with Louis
himself.
The work does change somewhat; for example, in the comic passages, Nureyev
brings more wit and Louis more quirky humor, Yet, this spare and athletic
work to the Ravel Quartet still remains and excellent introduction to
Louis's style...
Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the 20th Century
ended its cross-country North American tour in Philadelphia's Walnut Street
Theater over the Christmas holidays... |
| Times July 25,
1984 |
A fine dance.
The Royal Ballet soon won't have a leg to dance on: the exodus of male
dancers from the company continues apace. The retirement at only 38 of
David Wall from the Covent Garden company comes after Graham Fletcher and
Douglas Howes pirouetted off stage for good. Now I hear young soloist
Stephen Sheriff, flavour of the month with the critics, has handed in his
resignation. Things are no better at Sadler's Wells where leading man
David Ashnole has left for Australia. Following on his heels is
Michael Batchelor, who quit so suddenly that a guest dancer from Holland,
Henry Jurriens, has been drafted in to open the new season at Cambridge this
September. An unflappable Royal Ballet sponswoman assured me: "It's
just itchy feet." |
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