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Show Dance Boom Lives On JGLENNE CUMUE Lively Arts Ether ITI NEW YORK vUPI) -- The dance boom must tiU be with us. at least in New York, because suddenly there are companies everywhere. In toe past couple of weeks there have been Makarova and Company Wednesday. November m 5. 1980. THE HERALD, Prove Utah-P- age ilanehe iaker Making Her Own Way as Acfress HOLLYWOOD (T'PIl M farm!! Rakr two years older than her daughter is today, when she donned a mini nightie, stuck her tfcunib in her mouth and crawled into a crib to star in "Baby Doll" in 1956. That film popularised baby doll pajamas, today a stock item in a female's wardrobe. It also forever identified Carroll as a childish sex symbol Nothing Carroll did subsequently gained as much attention. Because Carroll has remained fixed in millions of minds as a perennial nymphette, it comes as something of a shock to accept the fact that her daughter, Blanche, is a budding movie a" star. Blanche, who is not nearly as old fashioned as her name, bears no resemblance to her mother until she speau. iney sound alike. Blanche pined national attention in the miniseries 'Holocaust" for which she won an Emmy for best supporting actress three years ago as the young girl whose mother and aunt are led away to the gas chambers. She also distinguished herself as the Virgin Mary in "Mary and Joseph: A Story of Love." Blanche will be seen later this season in 20th Century-Fo- x Television's "The Day The Bubble Burst" Her movies include "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" and "French Postcards." Many second and third generation performers rely on parental influence for referential treatment and to open closed doors. Blanche was blessed with an embarrassment of options for using influence. In addition to her mother s renown on stage and in theater and films. Blanche's father is Jack Garfein, a theatrical producer and director who also operates The Actors and Directors Lab. a Manhattan school for fledgling talent. Were this not enough Blanche's godfather is Lee Strasberg. the guru of method acting and the high priest of The Actor's Studio where some of the great stars of the 50s and 60s including Carroll Baker -cut their acting teeth. "I was really stuck " said Blanche. "To avoid hurting Lee's and Dad's feelings, I studied with Uta - Hagen. "When I was IS I wasn't even sure I wanted to be an actress. So I enrolled in WeUesley College in Massachusetts. But I took a leave of absense to study with Uta to investigate the possibilities." Blanche is a young woman with definite opinions and values. She's also net above employing a bit of wile when it's called for. She lived above the Bleecker Street Cinema in Manhattan after leaving home and spent endless hours watching foreign films. During the eight yean she lived in Rome with her mother, she also was exposed to hundreds of European movies. Since "Holocaust Blanche has been worklni steadily. And without a bit of help from her parents or godfather. self-assur- at the Uris, the Murray Louis Dance Company at City Center, the San Francisco Ballet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Cincinnati Ballet (with Soviet defector Mikhail Messerer making his first appearance with a western at company) the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at ass wanarousa Brooklyn College. The Nede'rlander theater organization, which owns the Uris and is backing Makarova, charges a ISO top. The others charge a third or a half that Partly as a result, the y Uris was for the long inaugural Oct. 2 Makarova season; half-empt- the cavernous City Center did a bit better for Murray Louis Oct But the two Brooklyn 9. houses to played capacity: the Cincinnati Ballet for two performances Oct. 9 in its first visit to New York, and the San Francisco Ballet six performances -- 18-1- Oct 14-1- 9. The visitors from Cincinnati and San Francisco proved the most teresting. in- who Messerer, defected from the Bolshoi with his mother Sulamith in Japan last February, had earlier been billed to ' SfifSV. appear with other American companies, but they fell through. With the Cincinnati he danced the Grand Pas de Deux from "Sleeping Beauty" with Patricia V ""rT--J' - - ; " Jiisr V Discontinued Models Mismatched covers Limited Quantities .v-ss- pl 2pi MT NF1' First Come -- First serve Rozow, in Frederic Franklin's adaption of the Marius Petipa choreography. He proved himself an able partner and a fine technician, with some odd arm movements and an occasional air of distraction. However, it is easy to imagine him in the Bolshoi's heroic character roles. Rozow is a find; a strong dancer with excellent pointe work and good placement. The Cincinnati's program was chosen with the company's capabilities in mind, with the Ruth Page-Bentl- Stone showpiece "Frankie and Johnny" a number of Siving a chance to show their wares. The surprise here was veteran Roman Jasinski, dancing Johnny as to the jazz manner born. The Ssn Francisco Bal- let, after a two-ye- ar absence from New York, had an repertoire, including Michael d Smuin's "A Song for Dead Warriors," supposedly based on the real life of an Inall-ne- w much-heralde- dian. Unfortunately the book is little more than a cliche: young Indian un- dergoes initiation rites, falls in love, sees his girl raped and murdered by (tribal?) police, hits skid row, is beaten up in a poolroom, imagines his life and heritage pass in review while in hospital, and finally kills the ca?i.iwimat w& policeman. It is a little unnerving still to see Indian warriors wearing ballet tights and performing standard ballet steps and leaps, to see war bonnets and other costumes seemingly out of a Hollywood storehouse, and to have most of the ballet performed behind a scrim on which are projected Indian and city scenes. The work has some gripping moments, and Antonio Lopez is fine in the main role, but it boils down to entertainment rather than ballet. .The Murray Louis company presented two world Louis: " Sremieres by Dances (Opus 79) " and "The City (Opus 80) ." Both are abstract, performed to music by The David Darling Ensemble, and The young dancers whom Makarova has in and Company gathered together Makarova improved considerably after two weeks dancing at the Uris, but still were greatly overshadowed by -the guest artists. '". fim Kh fk smMPM QCoYo) o -- " 25 .v i F Y 1 |