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...Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland, flutter through these pages, but the book is mostly a skillful portrait of the mercurial, infinitely resourceful Kirstein, who is still active, and the half a dozen or so teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
DIED. ALEXANDRA DANILOVA, 93, ballet's radiant empress who left Russia in 1924 but never defected from its classical dance traditions; at her home in New York City. Orphaned at three, Danilova fell in love with the stage. At the Ballet Russes in the 1920s and '30s, she soared as Odette in Swan Lake and sizzled as the street dancer in Le Beau Danube. As a teacher at the School of American Ballet, she inspired generations of dancers. "I sacrificed marriage, children and country to be a ballerina," she wrote, "and there was never any misunderstanding on my part...
...person who spurs Richard out of his marital torpor is Anna Danilova, a young Russian poet who arrives in London in 1990 on an apparent mission of mercy. Her brother, having served a sentence back in Moscow for currency violations, is still being held in jail. Anna's plan is to circulate a petition signed by prominent Western intellectuals that declares her to be a world-class writer whose relative is being persecuted by Soviet officials; they might then be shamed into releasing the prisoner. Since Richard is an established authority on the literature of her homeland, Anna asks...
...success story: she is a little girl's fantasy come to life. At 16 she has been given major roles by George Balanchine, the greatest living choreographer. New York City Ballet audiences, normally a reserved and sophisticated lot, cheer her on to three or four bows. Alexandra Danilova, a former prima ballerina, says that Darci has "a perfume in her dancing that makes you think, 'How beautiful...
Will Japan ever wholly succumb to Western ballet and give up its traditional dancing? Not likely, thinks another recent visitor, Ballerina Alexandra Danilova. "Our dance is like flower, open out this way," she says, assisting her Russian accent by opening out her fists. Then, closing them again, she added: "Japanese dance is like flower, closing up this...