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Dame Margot Fonteyn, 40, top ballerina of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, has not been home much recently. Her most publicized wandering pirouetted her smack into "the presidential suite" of a Panamanian jail after her husband, ex-Panamanian Diplomat Roberto ("Tito") Arias, took her along on a comic-opera invasion attempt aimed at overthrowing Panama's government with a motley seven-man force (TIME, May 4). She was booted from the country next day. Last week Covent Garden's directors announced that the West's greatest ballerina will no longer be billed...
...leaving New York, the Bolshoi company watched the City Ballet rehearse three works by George Balanchine (see below). The Russians applauded the U.S. group's discipline, but were clearly puzzled by a modern style alien to their own. At one point during Stravinsky's atonal Agon (1957), Ballerina Galina Ulanova unbelievingly recalled an earlier (1911), romantic work by the same composer. "This," she asked a companion, "is the same Stravinsky who wrote Petrouchka...
...that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn...
...Giselle, the famous role that she danced for the first time 27 years ago, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova last week at the Metropolitan Opera House showed why, at 49, she is the world's greatest ballerina. Even to an audience already keyed to a series of Bolshoi successes, the evening was a triumph-and Ulanova's performance a genuine masterpiece of the theater...
...packs the house with VIPs when she does. Married to Vadim Rindin, chief designer of the Bolshoi, she lives in a four-room apartment on the ninth floor of a building overlooking the Moscow River and the Kremlin. Although she earns an estimated $25,000 a year as leading ballerina of the Bolshoi, she maintains no country dacha, but drives a six-cylinder Volga, which she hopes to turn in someday for a larger car ("I dream," she says, "about its automatic shift...