Word: danilova
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...judge by last year's furore over Ballerina Alicia Markova, she was the only occupant of ballet's top drawer. Last week the other occupant was getting some of her due. Crowds jammed Manhattan's City Center to see Alexandra Danilova, last of Diaghilev's prima ballerinas, as the Street Dancer in Le Beau Danube and the Queen in Swan Lake...
...fans insist that 41-year-old Danilova is "a dancer's dancer," the best classical dancer today. Most balletomanes allow her ballet's most beautiful legs (a critic once called them "flexible and . . . fast [as a] hummingbird's wings...
...lush, romantic music by Russia's aging Reinhold Glière. It caused almost as much excitement in Manhattan's City Center of Music and Drama as it had in Moscow at its first performance in 1927. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with Alexandra Danilova as the star, gave it an energetic performance. But it was not the same Red Poppy that Muscovites had cheered in the Bolshoi Theater 17 years ago. The Poppy, like all things Russian and the American Communist Party, had undergone many adjustments...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, was Muscovite Americana, less pretentious than the Russians' earlier Union Pacific and Ghost Town. Jockeys and girls in hoop skirts footed it among the Victorian curlicues of New York's spa, while two males vied for the favors of svelte Alexandra Danilova. Weinberger's tripping score afforded not only one authentic polka, but many a polka-dotted measure. No fugue...
...bring in the money. As usual he has two ballet troupes, but-because of ballet's tendency to behave like a slap-happy amoeba-the troupes are different this year. In the finely trained Massine ballet are the most glamorous (Tamara Toumanova) and the most technically accomplished (Alexandra Danilova) of ballerinas, as well as three of the fleetest male dancers (Frederic Franklin, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky...