{"id":573,"date":"2008-10-15T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp\/2008\/10\/go_cynthia_gregory_in_conversa\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:22:26","slug":"go_cynthia_gregory_in_conversa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/2008\/10\/go_cynthia_gregory_in_conversa.html","title":{"rendered":"GO: Cynthia Gregory in conversation this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the release of the DVD “Together”<\/a>–a
\ncompendium of scenes from ballets that the American Ballet Theatre
\nballerina shared with principal dancer Fernando Bujones–Cynthia
\nGregory is sitting down with my esteemed colleague Joel Lobenthal, of
\nthe extinguished Sun, at the Lincoln Center Barnes and Noble, 7:30 pm this Friday, October 17. <\/p>\n

<\/a>GO!
\nI know from firsthand experience that Joel is an excellent
\ninterviewer–he was the moderator of a Dance Critics Association panel
\nthis summer that included Laura Jacobs and me, and he asked really
\nengaging questions. He knows ballet history inside, outside, and upside
\ndown, and has followed glorious Gregory’s career from the start. <\/p>\n

In
\ncase you have yet to succumb to middle age, Cynthia Gregory was a big
\ndeal in the ’70s. Because the New York City Ballet didn’t tour the
\nStates, for those of us in the provinces–the SF Bay Area, say–Gregory
\nin the classical roles of ABT was one of a handful of dancers that
\nmeant ballet to us. As a teenager, I saw her with Bujones more than any
\nother ballerina. And while Makarova could feel too Russian (i.e., slow)
\nand Gelsey Kirkland freakily effete, Gregory was large and strong,
\ndancing with a forthright clarity that never compromised her grace. <\/p>\n

And
\nBujones, her regular partner, was heaven–gentle and long-limbed and as
\nsoft in landing as a cat. Sort of like Marcelo Gomes.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the conversation should be interesting. <\/p>\n

As for live ballet, don’t forget that the San Francisco Ballet is at City Center <\/a>through Sunday. They’ve brought a couple of Balanchine masterworks, as well as Morris and Wheeldon New York premieres. <\/p>\n

Speaking
\nof Wheeldon, I have just posted<\/a> on the second annual outing of his
\ncompany, Morphoses: so much better than the first. In fact, so good in
\nparts that it was like being carried along by the tide. (The paradox of
\nexperience: when you’re really one with it, you’re not in much of a position to accurately record it.)<\/p>\n

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