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Capitalist ways and wiles were almost too much for Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected from Russia's Kirov Ballet in England last fall, then moved to the U.S. Returning from a visit with friends, she and her good friend and interpreter Vladimir Rodzianko found that the locks had been changed on their Manhattan apartment: Landlady Irene Epstein claimed that Natalia and Vladimir owed telephone and electricity bills and had done $1,000 worth of damage. Chort vozmi! Natalia's costumes and specially made ballet shoes were inside, and she was about to go on tour with the American...
...Singers of Omsk lit up Carnegie Hall with the bounding energy of mad Russian muzhiks-despite several ammonia bottles planted by activists protesting Soviet antiSemitism. More passive dance fans turned up at the New York State Theater to watch homegrown Master George Balanchine and his New York City Ballet hold their own against all competition, despite two disappointing and one merely promising new ballets by young choreographers...
...Australian Ballet at the New York City Center offered traditionalists Don Quixote, a classic first created by Marius Petipa in the late 19th century, complete with romantic story line, richly caparisoned corps de ballet, not to mention assorted gypsies and whirling windmills. Founded only eight years ago, the company is a direct result of Australia's effort to change its image as a cultural backwater. The Australians have already toured 50 major cities in Europe, South America and Asia, but they have yet to develop a major choreographer of their own or a ballerina of international repute. Thus when...
After Cairo, Muskie flew to Moscow. He discussed the problems of public transportation and automobiles with Moscow's mayor, Vladimir Promyslov, then started off for an evening at the Bolshoi Ballet. As it turned out, the Senator saw just ten minutes of the ballet, for word came that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would receive him. Muskie and Gromyko talked for nearly three hours over a "wide range" of subjects. The next day came the coup of the trip for a presidential candidate seeking to strengthen his foreign policy credentials: a 3-hr. 45-min. interview on "bilateral interests" with...
...coordination, grace, and strength, to move a leather ball up and down the gridiron. This very absurdity, however, serves to intensify the spectator's awareness of the beauty of the game. It is the old story of art for art's sake. Football is a sort of bone-crunching ballet, with an improvised and unpredictable choreography. Like dancers, the players acquire a large repertoire of movements, then spontaneously combine them as they go along...