sometimes it’s really nice to see classically oriented ballet dancers do something totally Neo.
Case in point: Baryshnikov with Browne, Carberry, and Dunham in a scaled-down Who Cares? for Dance in America from the late-1980s. It wasn’t fashionable or even acceptable in many quarters to say something like this at the time, but boy did the other side of the plaza do justice to this! Yes, male virtuoso technique’s gotten fancier (read: pushy and cluttered) since then, but Baryshnikov still can’t be beat.
I just saw it recently for the first time. I watched Tchernichova work extensively with those three women but Who Cares? wasn’t in ABT’s rep. I think Baryshnikov did a concert version on his private summer tours. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Wish I could tell Elena how good “her girls” look here–yes, she was proprietary that way!