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During her week, Jackie Kennedy, who likes and enjoys the Christmas festivities, went backstage at a performance given by-Washington's newly acquired American Ballet Theater, thanked Dame Margot Fonteyn for flying in from London to take the place of ailing Ballerina Maria Tallchief, posed with the cast in some pictures that looked like spun-sugar decorations on a holiday cake. She dropped by the D.C. Village infirmary for old folks, stopped by each wheelchair, saying: "Nice to see you. Merry Christmas...
...there is pain, he will lay that bare too. He painted one woman over a number of years, starting when she was 18, and then at various milestones and crises in her life from her marriage through her pregnancy and divorce. On his painting of women-seamstresses, ballet dancers, actresses, and nudes-he lavishes all his tenderness. In such a painting as Young Girl, subtlety of pose, the position of only a hand, can express as much emotion as the expression on the face...
...still has much to learn-and many observers agree with him. In bravura numbers-such as the pas de deux from Le Corsaire or from Bournonville's The Flower Festival of Genzano-his technique is often insecure. Nureyev himself points out that Yuri Soloviev of the Kirov Ballet is a far more polished performer. But what remains undisputed is that no dancer has greater natural gifts than Nureyev, or a more tempestuous temperament...
Outside Russia, a star attraction no matter what he does, he might find such discipline only under one of his idols, like George Balanchine of the able but low-budget New York City Ballet...
...Seesaw. Gittel Moscowitz is a slob. Also a kook. Number one, she lives in the Village and looks it. She is 29 but she still wears ballet flats, black tights and bulky knits, and her hair is like something she maybe found under a bed. Add to which she is having her second ulcer and living on cottage cheese, as everybody can plainly see from the mess on the front of her bulky knit. But Gittel has a career. She is known as Gittel Mosca on the stage-of the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. Gittel has push. For years she picked...