29 July 2011
Thrilled to be photo’ed with former Shark, George Chakiris, were Renae Williams Niles, the Music Center’s head of programming, and Jane Jalenko, President of Center Dance Arts and a big West Side Story fan. A dance critic was also hanging around. [...]
18 July 2011
Despite best efforts, California authorities (the people who brought you Ronald “Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!” Reagan) could not put the kibosh on American Ballet Theatre’s “The Bright Stream,” choreographed by their new in-house guy, Alexei Ratmansky. Clearly controlled by Soviet agents, ABT foisted a clever piece of communist propaganda on our sunny [...]
28 June 2011
Prior to next week’s “West Side Story” night at the Hollywood Bowl — a screening of the ten-Oscar-winning, Bernstein-Robbins-Sondheim-Laurent film celebrating its 50th year anniversary — it’s a great pleasure to post L.A. renaissance guy Tom Gregory’s lovely interview with Bernardo, er… the wonderful George Chakiris. [...]
3 May 2011
A few leftover quotes from my L.A. Times interview with actor/dancer George Chakiris. The conversation took place on April 30, 2011. [...]
30 April 2011
I’m interviewing Academy Award winning actor/dancer George Chakiris, famous for West Side Story and so much more. [...]
13 February 2009
Celebrating the choreography of Jerome Robbins and ballet dancers Violette Verdy and Edward Villella. [...]
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gered mankowitz, photog, 1967
brigitte bardot ballerina
charles chaplin, ballet man
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“the red danube” (1949)
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