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Good Italian ballerinas are about as scarce as Russian boccie bowlers. But audiences at La Scala last week cheered a 23-year-old dancer, daughter of a Milan streetcar conductor, who was all but stealing the stage from Britain's famed Margot Fonteyn. Occasion: the world premiere of Fantasy at Grand Hotel, starring Ballerina Carla Fracci...
...prison as it told of a girl who is wooed by a gangster, framed in a gangland shooting, sentenced to death, but liberated by a previous lover. The short piece was lavishly costumed-busboys in scarlet monkey suits, red-robed judges, policemen dressed in dominoes-and it amply displayed Ballerina Fracci's hard-edged, superbly controlled style...
...physique." But at ballet's end, fans applauded through nine curtain calls, echoing the success she has found all over Europe in the four years since she emerged from La Scala's ballet school. The daily Avanti found that Carla "has now fully arrived as a prima ballerina," and one critic noting that she is related to Verdi, observed: "No wonder she's so good; she drinks her morning espresso out of a cup that once was Verdi's." Few present would dispute the recent judgment of the London Daily Mail: "She will...
...Seville, As for the choreography-originally by Jean Bercher (1742-1806), known professionally as Dauberval and regarded as the father of comic ballet-Innovator Ashton was almost completely on his own. The only guide he had to the original work was the hazy memory of an oldtime (75) ballerina, Russian-born Tamara Karsavina, who danced the role of Lise in czarist St. Petersburg...
Ashton's new Fille is an unabashedly lyrical, bravura showcase for pixyish (5 ft. 4 in., 105 Ibs.) Nadia Nerina (born Nadine Judd in Cape Town), long acknowledged the company's most polished virtuoso. Around the 32-year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness...