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Vladimir Vasiliev, 19, the youngest member of the Bolshoi company. A favorite trick: to bound straight off the stage, extend one leg, tuck the other under him and casually descend in perfect balance on one foot...
Turning out such dancers regularly is a feat on which the Russians spend almost as much thought and energy as on a FiveYear Plan. The Bolshoi company is schooled in a dingy, three-story building at No. 2 Pushechnaya Street in the heart of Moscow. The training school (one of 14 state ballet schools in Russia) is swamped by applications from 1,500 Russian 7-to 9-year-olds each year; no more than 40 are accepted. Bolshoi students get full board and tuition, wear traditional uniforms that vary with their ages, e.g., blue shirts and red ties...
...Bolshoi's visit may yet prove to be the best thing that ever happened to U.S. dance-if only because it sharpens appreciation of the spirit of restless experimentation that animates a company like the New York City Ballet. Last week, before leaving New York, the Bolshoi company watched the City Ballet rehearse three works by George Balanchine (see below). The Russians applauded the U.S. group's discipline, but were clearly puzzled by a modern style alien to their own. At one point during Stravinsky's atonal Agon (1957), Ballerina Galina Ulanova unbelievingly recalled an earlier...
While the Bolshoi Ballet was finishing its New York run in Madison Square Garden last week (see above), the New York City Ballet was staging its season's first new work, providing a striking contrast with the Russians' old-fashioned choreography. The premiere: Episodes, a two-part work set to the symphonic pieces of Viennese Atonalist Anton Webern (1883-1945). Choreographers: two modern masters of the dance, George Balanchine and Martha Graham, who had never worked together before...
...appears at the Bolshoi Theater not more than three times a month but invariably packs the house with VIPs when she does. Married to Vadim Rindin, chief designer of the Bolshoi, she lives in a four-room apartment on the ninth floor of a building overlooking the Moscow River and the Kremlin. Although she earns an estimated $25,000 a year as leading ballerina of the Bolshoi, she maintains no country dacha, but drives a six-cylinder Volga, which she hopes to turn in someday for a larger car ("I dream," she says, "about its automatic shift...