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PEOPLE, Page 77Martins: Bash Dancer
By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
With all that gauze and grace onstage, it's easy to forget
that ballet stars are made strictly of trained muscle and iron
will. New York City Ballet principals PETER MARTINS, 45, and
DARCI KISTLER, 28, used to be a sublime partnership on stage,
and last December, some time after Martins had become the
company's chief, the most powerful dance job in America, they
got married. But last week the two titanic temperaments clashed.
Martins was arrested in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for beating
Kistler, who called the police. They had been out partying, and
afterward she wanted to talk about their problems. He wanted to
sleep. A few days later, they were seen arm in arm and Kistler
had the assault charges dismissed. But Martins might do well to
remember a line about ballerinas in his book Far from Denmark:
"Some are nice, some are not so nice. But they are all tough,
merciless."