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EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). An analogy is made between sports and ballet, with New York City Ballet's Jacques d'Amboise demonstrating...
...That's quite a name you've got there," Bolshoi Ballet Master Leonid Lavrovsky told the young ballerina. "If you turn out to be a good dancer you can keep it." The dancer's name was Natalia Bessmertnova, and since in Russian that means Natalie the Immortal, its owner seemed destined to carry it awkwardly-like a steamer trunk with fancy labels. Last week, with barely two months as a Bolshoi soloist behind her, Bessmertnova was established in Moscow's excited ballet world as decidedly bessmertnova-even more so, said her teachers, than the immortal Ulanova...
...only one solo role-Giselle-and that only five times. But each time she dances she stirs up a storm of acclaim such as the staid old Bolshoi has not seen in years. Even Ulanova raves about her. Lithe, dark, and only 22, Bessmertnova seems the very ideal of ballet-the disembodied spirit choreographers dream of, the ethereal figure that explains the whole logic of the dance...
Bessmertnova studied for ten years at the Bolshoi Ballet School, then spent two seasons in the corps de ballet before her first Giselle last November. At the highly conservative Bolshoi, even this long tour is hardly a complete apprenticeship, and Lavrovsky is sternly resisting the demand for her dancing by allowing her only one or two performances a month. Battling off other Bolshoi ballet masters who plead for her presence, he says: "I don't want them destroying at night what I teach...
Ruth St. Denis once danced at Spencer's Sunday morning worship. Metropolitan Opera Basso Jerome Hines came in to sing Negro spirituals. Last week Christmas Eve services featured a modern ballet based on the medieval legend of the Juggler of Notre Dame. Glenesk, who is a good enough dancer himself to work out with Martha Graham's company, produced the performance, recruiting dancers from Graham, the New York City Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. He has even donned a leotard himself to prance through the sanctuary in his own choreographed version of Jacob's ladder (Genesis...