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Balanchine 's new ballet looks sadly on love
...brief sequence is in Robert Schumann 's Davidsbündlertänze, a new ballet by George Balanchine that received its world premiere at the New York City Ballet last week. From this choreographer it is a radical work. Balanchine relies on music to give shading and mood to his ballets, and has been known to deride the overblown sentiment often found in romantic works. There is much that is familiar about Davidsbündlertänze: the steps annealed to music, the virtuosity, the surprises. What is new is that it is openly, drenchingly emotional, a meditation that...
...form of the ballet has much to do with Schumann's piano suite, written when he was 27. The composer was also a music critic then, and it amused him to make up pseudonyms to represent various aspects of his personality. He even in vented a club for his fantasy creatures to join. Called the Davidsbund, it was sup posed to combat the philistines of the music world. (For a time, readers thought that the group actually existed.) Schumann also made up imaginary women, especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four...
...school, has been dancing with the company since 1969. Pavlova, 23, is an example of the Bolshoi's growing need to reach out to regional companies for new soloists. A former co-winner of the U.S.S.R.'s national dance competition, she was recruited in 1975 from the ballet company in Perm. Five months later, on the same day that she made her debut in Giselle, she and Gordeyev were married...
...pair appear to be basking in Grigorovich's good graces, as well as enjoying the blessing of Plisetskaya. Dedicated and rather conservative, they remain apart from the controversies raging within the company. Says Gordeyev: "Our lives, after all, revolve around the ballet, our art." It will be a good thing for the Bolshoi if they, and dancers like them, can keep it that...