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Applause from Dissenters. For the ballet's opening-night program at the Bolshoi Theater, all seats were sold out weeks in advance, with the first several solid rows reserved for top officials of the Ministry of Culture. The New York company started with two relatively uncomplicated pieces-Balanchine's Serenade and Jerome Robbins' Interplay. But it remained for the third number on the program- the Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon-to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed to, it moved even dissenters to applaud at certain high points. The upper...
...role of Boris Godunov. For his passionate and athletic performance -in faultless Russian-of the tragic Czar, enormous (6 ft. 6 in.. 195 Ibs.) Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Mines, 40, drew a tumultuous standing ovation and six curtain calls from the opening night crowd at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. Said the Hollywood-born Hines, modestly trying to sound surprised at the cheers: "How do you think Americans would feel if they saw Yuri Gagarin on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral...
...girls in their summer dresses might well have arrived by bus from Waterloo, Iowa. Some of the boys looked like members of the chorus of West Side Story. Except for the slightly waddling walk that characterizes ballet dancers, few Sunday strollers would recognize them as the youngsters of the Bolshoi on their day off. Every Sunday since they arrived in the U.S. four weeks ago, they have been wandering . happily around New York like a family of prize mallards...
...Hotel Westbury like a two-acre astrakhan hat. She had Russian-speaking waiters up there passing champagne and beef Stroganoff on sterling silver platters. She had Henry Fonda, Robert Preston. Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly. She had jazzman Ted Straeter, with a five-piece band. The young people of the Bolshoi loved every minute of it. When Straeter flooded the place with twist music, members of the corps de ballet were soon writhing to its rhythms...
...writhing by 15 Cadiz dancing girls, all of them bare considerably south of the navel. Khatchaturian's thunderous score omitted scarcely a single cliché of film music, and not even Plisetskaya was equal to the absurdities of her role as Spartacus' wife. As Spartacus himself, the Bolshoi introduced a giant (Dmitry Begak) who danced just about the way a giant might be expected...