Word: bolshoi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jerome Robbins? "Too self-obsessed. He's forgotten his point of view. He is not pushing forward any more." Martha Graham? "She thinks everything is expressible through a new technique." The Royal Ballet? "Too tradition-bound." The Bolshoi? "Too obsessed with characterization and athletics." The Kirov? "The finest in the world." Balanchine? "The greatest influence on ballet and dance in the Western world. He is pushing forward." So says the San Francisco Ballet's Lew Christensen, who in his 17 years in San Francisco has developed his company into one of the most versatile anywhere, and second only...
...major U.S. art form. There are 18 professional and 200 semiprofessional ballet companies in the country, two of which-Balanchine's New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theater-are rated among the best in the world. Their chief international competition-Russia's Kirov and Bolshoi, Denmark's Royal Danish and Britain's Royal Ballet-consistently play to sellout audiences during their extensive U.S. tours...
Magnolias and edelweiss make a proud device even in Moscow. And so last week Laurel, Miss., Soprano Leontyne Price, 37, and Salzburg-born Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 59, gathered at the Bolshoi Theater with the La Scala Opera Company to show what they could do with Verdi's Requiem. Quite a lot, as it turned out. The crowd, including Nina Khrushchev, enveloped the visitors in a bear hug, howling "Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!" and mashing its way down the aisles to pelt the stars with carnations in a 26-minute storm of applause that included 16 curtain calls...
After that, whenever they had wanted to play far-out in Moscow, they had to do it secretly in someone's apartment. Said Midny: "Our individuality was crushed." Looking for a way out of the country, they joined the non-jazz orchestra of-the Bolshoi Variety troupe last month just before it left for a tour of Japan. Once in Tokyo, the two men slipped away to the U.S. embassy. The U.S. flew them to West Germany to avoid getting the Japanese in trouble with the Russians, and the two cats probably will reach the U.S. soon. After...
...entire U.S. dance world. Mrs. Rebekah Harkness Kean has just created a new company with a $2,000,000 endowment to resist just that possibility. But long before any grants, the New York City Ballet was the only American company that could be compared to Moscow's Bolshoi, Leningrad's Kirov, London's Royal Ballet and Copenhagen's Royal Danish...