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...Russian ballerina Irina Baronova had already won critics' hearts, thanks to famed choreographer George Balanchine. He launched the young dancer's career when he cast her in a 1931 performance of the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld. Baronova went on to perform in ballets such as Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, but she is best known for touring the world with two other young Balanchine protégés. The trio, known as the "Baby Ballerinas," was hugely popular in the 1930s. Baronova...
Abbott's new cast is, for the most part, excellent, and in one case it is inspired. The inspiration is Makarova, who turns out to be not only a great ballerina but a gifted comedian. As the tempestuous Vera Baronova, she is both sexy and sly, and her deli very of a line is droll and almost always unpredictable. It is hard to tell whether she is acting or merely enjoying herself, but in the end it scarcely matters. Her zest is infectious and leaps across the footlights. In other major parts, Christine Andreas is a touching, warm-voiced...
Thus it was an odd sight to see not one but ten Lucia Chases onstage at the close of a three-hour show that mixed short excerpts and pas de deux with bows by beloved former dancers like Irina Baronova, Muriel Bentley, Sono Osato, Nora Kaye, Annabelle Lyon, Violette Verdy. Against a deeply shadowed backdrop, Chase seemed to appear in her old roles: actually dancers were costumed as the young girl who dances the prelude in Les Sylphides, the greedy virgin in Three Virgins and a Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar...
...Among others, Danilova, Toumanova, Baronova and the late great Pavlova have done all right in ballet, though married...
Glossy-haired, 46-year-old Dancer-Choreographer Massine, a veteran of at least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted...