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...Absolute nonsense!" That was Rudolf Nureyev's response to the rumor that Russian Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 29, who recently defected from the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, is replacing Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51, as his partner. As for Fonteyn, the prima ballerina sounded unconcerned about the possibility of his teaming up with Makarova. "Sometimes I dance with Nureyev and sometimes I don't," she said. "I dance with other partners, and so does he. I would very much like to see them dancing together some time...
SKIDMORE COLLEGE Charles E. Goodell, L.H.D., Senator from New York. Melissa Hayden, D.I.et., ballerina. Teacher, author, wife and mother; Saratoga's and the world's very own sugarplum fairy and also firebird...
...than Margot now," a member of the Royal Ballet said recently. "But when she's onstage, you still don't look at anyone else." That admission-and hastily appended tribute-seemed to sum up a transitional moment in the career of the world's most celebrated ballerina, and also in the life and youth of her well-traveled company...
...group's most accomplished ballerina is Merle Park. At 32, she is now technically a better dancer than Fonteyn, and her Giselle, danced with Dowell or Donald MacLeary, is already ranked with the best in modern dance history. Park conveys to audiences great warmth and tenderness, as well as humility and humor in a way that make her someone very like a Julie Harris on points...
...weeks ago the campaign reached an unusual pitch in Moscow. At a government-sponsored press conference in Friendship House, a panel of prominent Jews appeared before foreign newsmen to explain an anti-Zionist statement that had been signed by 52 of them, including Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Their statement declared that Zionism "expressed the chauvinist views and racist ravings of the Jewish bourgeoisie...