After The Curtain Comes Down

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By Newsweek Editors

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"Everything was beautiful at the ballet," goes the refrain from "A Chorus Line." But, apparently, everything was not so beautiful last week at the upstate summer home of the New York City Ballet. Company head Peter Martins, 45, was charged with beating his wife, 28-year-old ballerina Darci Kistler-and the press went into overdrive. One newspaper reported that their seven-month-old marriage has been a stormy one, just as Martins's prior relationship with dancer Heather Watts had been. According to an affidavit made by Kistler, she tried late one night to discuss a problem; Martins wanted to sleep, became verbally abusive and eventually pushed and slapped her.

By midweek-as the real show went on-Kistler had dropped the assault charges' And the couple issued a statement that they would seek professional help. But even in an industry known for temper, balletomanes were left to wonder whether they had seen the last of this red-hot pas de deux.

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