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...Russian emigre ballet dancers said yesterday that although they believe the Russian ballet is the best in the world, they chose to leave the Soviet Union because its "controlled" society stifled their artistic creativity...
Valery Panov, long considered one of the world's finest male dancers, and Galina Panova, formerly a lead dancer with the Kirov Ballet, discussed their background and training in the first of a two-part Learning from Performers series...
...Panovs filed for permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1972. Valery Panova was immediately dismissed from the Kirov Ballet, and Panova then resigned...
...widespread, Seattle actually has less annual precipitation than New York City, Atlanta and even Houston, a fact that civic boosters take endless delight in pointing out to new arrivals. The region also offers the quiet self-confidence of a major metropolis, complete with civic center, a nationally recognized opera, ballet and theater, and the National Basketball Association champion SuperSonics...
...rather guarded performance by Alan Bates as Diaghilev and an ill-considered one by Leslie Browne, the young ballerina in Director Ross's The Turning Point. She is here both glum and insipid as she pursues not an ambition but a man. A young dancer from the American Ballet Theater, George de la Pena, acts the part of Nijinsky quite effectively. There is a certain ineluctable spirit about him. But of his dancing, strangely, nothing at all can be said: Ross never permits him to per form a complete sequence of a ballet. In one instance he shoots...