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...understandable crusade; for a Muscovite, it is an uncomfortable one. But Dancer Yuri Sherling, 35, seeks a renaissance of Yiddish culture, which, he laments, is "decaying all over the world and has been neglected by many Jews in this country." A graduate of three famed institutes-the Bolshoi Ballet School, the Moscow Conservatory Musical School and the Moscow School of Theatrical Arts-Sherling is director-founder of the two-year-old Jewish Chamber Musical Theater. He has written the music, choreographed the dancing and starred in two hits with his company of 25. One show was an olio of jazzed...
Defections and artistic disputes rock the Bolshoi Ballet...
...city's balletomanes had turned out in force. The setting was familiar: the ornately gilded, plush-trimmed Bolshoi Theater. So was the program, which included an adagio from Sleeping Beauty and variations from Don Quixote and Le Corsaire. But wait. Up onstage were none of the usual Bolshoi Ballet stars, no Plisetskayas or Vasilyevs, no familiar figures at all. In fact, although the dancers showed flashes of the rigorous technique and expressive line that mark the Bolshoi style, there was here and there an unaccustomed slip, a slack fouetté, a leaden lift. What, then, accounted for the electric...
...being enacted. The occasion, two weeks ago, was the graduation program of the Moscow Academic Choreographic School, training arm of the 204-year-old Bolshoi. The young dancers were making their traditional debuts on the stage where they hope one day to reign as soloists. Bolshoi training-indeed, Soviet ballet training in general -imbues the students, from their first moments at the barre, with a deep sense of style and history. Says the Bolshoi Ballet's administrative director, Pyotr Khomutov: "When our classical heritage is made a part of the educational program, the students, afterward, can do anything...
...only a 50% discount on Aeroflot in exchange for altering its plan to stay home. No thanks, said the Thais, who, along with other non-Communist Southeast Asian nations, are supporting the boycott. Jordan, which is sending a team to Moscow, was reportedly promised a visit by the Bolshoi Ballet. In South America and Lathi America, the Soviets have let it be known that free room, board arid round-trip Aeroflot charters are available for the asking. That offer was recently extended to African nations, some of which have already received Soviet athletic gear and coaching help to prepare...