If they have multiple partners, I wouldn't think that's good. But if you are
a versatile dancer and flexible, as well as easy to work with (reputation vs. ego), you should be able to dance with anyone. Both dancers have to be on the same level technically. Then they can build a cohesive, narrative, joint interpretation. Great partnerships are like cosmic anomalies: They're rare. Here's my list: Maximova & Vasiliev, Fonteyn & Nureyev, Sibley & Dowell, Kain & Augustyn, Fracci & Bruhn, Farrell & Martins, McBride/Kent & Villela, Kirkland
& Baryshnikov, Makarova & Nagy, Plisetskaya & N. Fadeyachev, Semenyaka &
Mukhamedov/A. Fadeyechev, Asylmuratova & Zaklinsky/Ruzimatov/Mukhamedov, Ulanova/Dudinskaya & Sergueyev.
When I go to see a performance I want to feel it; I want to be moved. IMO I think the audience still wants to see the romance, the passion, two artists growing together. When the audience finds the 'it' couple, it makes a performance real rather than just steps, or a fairy story/fantasy. Its very satisfying. Who
wants to go to see "Romeo & Juliet" or "Giselle" and not be moved? I think the 'it' partnership now is Cojocaru & Kobborg at Covent Garden. But British critics are complaining "where's Rojo's partner?" :rolleyes: Its just a question of being in the right place, at the right time.