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...show also includes a bit of beautiful noise from Lena Home and Tony Bennett and some spectacular ballet by Edward Villella...
Tuesday, November 25 NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Britain's Royal Ballet presents Coppelia, featuring Merle Park, Stanley Holden and Christopher Gable...
...young ballerina, it was an object lesson in precision and prerogative. Too intent on one of her moves in Giselle at Trieste's Teatro Verdi Opera House, 20-year-old Giovanna Mariani accidentally touched down on the slipper of the ballet's star, Rudolf Nureyev. Instantly, so gracefully that he did not miss a step, the temperamental Russian slapped her full across the face. Giovanna fled in tears but returned after five minutes and finished the performance. Next day she set out to teach Nureyev an object lesson of her own -by filing assault charges against...
...from Stuttgart. Cranko's company has chosen to concentrate on three full-length works, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet and Eugene Onegin, all richly staged and costumed and all choreographed by Cranko. He handles large groups of dancers with remarkable dramatic effect. But the Stuttgart Ballet has been devastating audiences all across the U.S. mainly because of the dancing of two new stars, Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun...
...Lawrence was taking her first bows. Ceramie platters with insipid doe-eyed female heads and statuettes of languid girls on the other hand, are likely to be valued only by aficionados of kitsch. Certain themes and color schemes predominated: outrageous colors prompted by Léon Bakst's Ballet Russe sets; Egyptian motifs and Aztec patterns...