Word: chabukani
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Soviet Russians like their dancers to be athletes, tireless as machines. Tatiana Vecheslova and Vachtang Chabukani, so important in Leningrad that they are permitted to get on the front end of street cars along with pregnant women, had come to the U. S. as the Soviet's first artistic delegation...
What the Soviet ballet is like was hard to discover from Vecheslova's and Chabukani's dancing. They used the conventional steps, only more of them. The piano accompaniment was too thin to be noticed. Only hint of propaganda was the red cap and the tri-colored cockade sup posed to suggest "The Flame of Paris." None of the dances had meaning outside of the energy it took to perform them...
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