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After the curtain had fallen last week on the Royal Ballet's production of Giselle at London's Covent Garden, Dame Margot Fonteyn plucked a single long-stemmed red rose from one of her many bouquets and with a deep curtsy presented it to her young partner-ex-Kirov Ballet Danseur Rudolf Nureev. The young Russian lowered his eyes, sank to his knees and kissed the assoluta's hand. The audience exploded in an ovation that lasted through 23 curtain calls...
Ever since Nureev defected while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet and began to be hailed there as a major star in his performances with the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, balletomanes have dreamed of a Nureev-Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family, had danced with the Kirov company for ten years at the time of his defection. Ballet fans who have watched him in Paris call him the outstanding male dancer in the West-and probably in the world. A gifted soloist, he is also known as a superb partner of the kind that 42-year...
...performance, the audience was sparing with its applause. It was in the second act that Nureev-Fonteyn captured their audience. Nureev put on a breath-catching display of classic male dancing, lifted Fonteyn effortlessly aloft, spurred her on to a performance full of fluency and lyric ardor. At the ballet's climax, when Fonteyn cradled Nureev's head in her arms as he lay on the point of death, there was a quick intake of breath audible through the entire house...
...worked for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 54, South Korea's crypto-Messiah, who packed Madison Square Garden to overflowing last week. The happening, complete with numbers by the Korean Folk Ballet, kicked off an eight-city tour that climaxes his drive to build a base in the U.S. just seven years before the Messianic Age is to begin. Moon, through an interpreter, told the Garden-goers in guttural shouts, "The time of the Second Coming of Christ is near, and America is the landing site...
...Skrzypkowski was spared such visits only, he suspects, because his are the kind of views that the brigades did not wish to hear: "There's big talk in the press about raising the cultural standards of rural people. But we're farmers. We don't need ballet. First they should raise the economic standards. Politics," he concludes, "can't do anything...