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...Moscow under a new two-year cultural pact that calls for more swaps of artists, students, newsreels, magazines. radio and TV programs: the New York City Ballet, the Robert Shaw Chorale and, for all those beat Bolsheviks, Swing King Benny Goodman. In return, the Soviets will export the Bolshoi Ballet, the Leningrad Philharmonic, the Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and, on the seas of friendly strife, they intend to challenge the winner of the 1963 America's Cup twelve-meter-boat race. - Her wardrobe newly enhanced with high-fashion goodies from Manhattan's Chez Ninon (see MODERN LIVING), leopard-coated...
...company, fountainhead of Western ballet. In graceful profusion, it produced the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographer Fokine, the impresario Diaghilev. Its demanding, perfectionist teachers seeded the world's great troupes with their students: Galina Ulanova went on from St. Petersburg to her triumphs with Moscow's Bolshoi, and Choreographer George Balanchine used his Maryinsky training to reshape the entire U.S. ballet scene...
...Frills. For balletomanes who know the Bolshoi, the Kirov offers a striking contrast. Where the Bolshoi is flamboyant, dramatic and unabashedly fond of popular acclaim, the Kirov is precise, understated, a trifle aristocratic. The Bolshoi's prima ballerina may dash the length of the stage to leap into Prince Siegfried's arms with breathtaking drama in the Black Swan pas de deux of Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto...
Outside Russia, most ballet buffs agree that the Bolshoi dance company is the Soviet's best. But in London last week, audiences had a rare chance to consider a rival. The Kirov Ballet of Leningrad, which somewhat obscurely traces its descent to the establishment of the Imperial Academy of Dancing in St. Petersburg in 1738, came to town on its first Western tour and gave a generous demonstration of what it thinks the classical ballet is all about...
...Kirov style is soft, lyrical, and generally more elegant than the intense manner of the Bolshoi. The result, in the Kirov's production of Giselle, was a performance that avoided all pyrotechnics in favor of a leisurely, unified, deliberately understated approach. Where the Bolshoi version strives for brilliance and momentum, the Kirov version was poetic and withdrawn-more of a spectacle than an unfolding drama. To many observers, the performance was unsatisfactory-but the Kirov productions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake easily made up for it. Substantially different from the version offered by Britain's Royal Ballet...