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...cracking Persian vodka. Before leaving Washington for New York, where the imperial couple were to be the principal guests at a Pocantico Hills dinner given by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, the Shah and his Empress, along with 800 personal guests, attended a performance of the American Ballet Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Among the dancers onstage was ballet's newest superstar, Mikhail Baryshnikov (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Friends Well Met | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...nostalgic love for the fairy-tale side of romantic Imperial ballet. That fondness has produced masterpieces - The Nutcracker, for example - but it can also lead to muddled fables like L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Boy and the Sorceries). Described as a "lyric fantasy" and based on a story by Colette, L'Enfant is as much an operetta as a ballet. It requires a chorus, a quintet of singing narrators and a boy soprano. He plays a naughty child who escapes from his studies into a fantasy world of cavorting armchairs, dancing teapots, and a veritable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Instant Festival | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

OTHER U.S. DANCE COMPANIES. The dance explosion is not confined to New York. Ten years ago there were two professional dance companies outside of Manhattan with budgets exceeding $100,000. Last year there were 20. Bustling activity in other U.S. companies, like the San Francisco Ballet, reflects the new enthusiasm for dance. There is wit behind the footwork of San Francisco's Alexander Filipov, who is yet another Kirov-trained dancer. Dramatic range, nervy dancing and a varied repertory -Giselle, Merce Cunningham's Winterbranch-place the Boston Ballet high on the list. Small wonder that subscriptions nearly tripled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Rites Of Spring | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...BOLSHOI BALLET. The key to the enduring Bolshoi mystique is its magnitude: the colossal technical prowess of its dancers, their grandeur of emotion, the elaborate theatrical productions. Alas, on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera the gallant dancers often sag beneath the weighty spectacle of the frantic choreography of Director Yuri Grigorovich. Yet Giselle, the company's corner stone, abounds in fresh lyrical dancing and finely drawn characterizations. Radiant young Ludmila Semenyaka and Vyacheslav Gordeyev, a powerful classical dancer, should win fans during the Bolshoi's nine-city national tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Rites Of Spring | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

STUTTGART BALLET. This is the group's first U.S. appearance since the death of principal Architect-Director John Cranko in 1973. American Choreographer Glen Tetley, a former A.B.T. and Martha Graham dancer, was the company's unanimous choice to succeed Cranko. But whereas Cranko's story ballets and acrobatic choreography strengthened the theatrical aspect of Stuttgart, Tetley's blend of classical and modern dance vocabulary may add more plasticity of movement. His Voluntaries and his new Daphnis and Chloé will be given U.S. premieres during May-July visits to New York's Metropolitan Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Rites Of Spring | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

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