Word: ballerina
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During her week, Jackie Kennedy, who likes and enjoys the Christmas festivities, went backstage at a performance given by-Washington's newly acquired American Ballet Theater, thanked Dame Margot Fonteyn for flying in from London to take the place of ailing Ballerina Maria Tallchief, posed with the cast in some pictures that looked like spun-sugar decorations on a holiday cake. She dropped by the D.C. Village infirmary for old folks, stopped by each wheelchair, saying: "Nice to see you. Merry Christmas...
Margot Fonteyn, a little past her great ballerina days at 43, has found in Russian Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 24, one of the most satisfactory partners of her career. They make quite a pair. Seventeen months have now passed since he defected in Paris from the Kirov Ballet company of Leningrad (TIME, June 23, 1961). Dancing with Fonteyn, Nureyev has gained in control and assurance without losing any of the instinctive stage sense that made him an immediate hit. Audiences seem absorbed with every movement of his small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed...
...most part, Caroline Kennedy, 4, sat rapt and on her best behavior as she and her mother* watched Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet limber up for their evening show at Washington's Capitol Theater. She curtsied politely to Ballet Master Asaf Messerer and shook hands with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who looked pretty funny in her woolly leg-warmers. But two hours of Bolshoi can be tough on the best behaved little girl, and Caroline got a mite fidgety. She struggled out of her pink sweater, kicked her red Mary Janes back and forth, wriggled up into Mama...
...program- the Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon-to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed to, it moved even dissenters to applaud at certain high points. The upper galleries, jammed with younger members of the audience, erupted in noise at the curtain. Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, a Bolshoi mainstay, remarked that although she was against abstract dancing in general...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Tenor Richard Tucker, Ballerina Maria Tallchief, Soprano Patrice Munsel...