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<text id=91TT1694>
<title>
July 29, 1991: View Points:Dance
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 63
DANCE
She Did It Her Way
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<p>By Martha Duffy
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<p> The centerpiece of the Royal Ballet's current U.S. tour is a
production of SWAN LAKE that in most respects is a genial mess.
In the famous "white act," the enchanted maidens dance around in
what appears to be silvery decor left over from their Christmas
party, all tinsel and discarded trees. But the company does have
a genuine Swan Queen: the bewitching French ballerina SYLVIE
GUILLEM. At 26, she is the reigning star of international
ballet, and it is easy to see why. Tall and leggy, she seems to
have double-jointed hips--her ordinary kick is stopped only
by her ear. Onstage she seems radiantly alone. This Swan Queen
may be the Prince's fantasy; she mostly ignores him and
certainly does not need him to enact her own doomed fate.
Guillem holds the stage with mesmeric authority. No romance for
her, Tchaikovsky notwithstanding. Guillem is a modern heroine
who could perform the role persuasively in a leotard. In fact,
theater artist Robert Wilson is only semi spoofing when he talks
of a Swan Lake in which she would play all the roles. She could
too, right down to the tipsy tutor.
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