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...words, "after Tchaikowsky"--without the electric qualities of the great modernist's later work, over-gushy like the compositions of the earlier Russian Romantic but lacking their slick appeal. The story is Nineteenth Century and dull, the dancing, including that of Nathalic Krassovska as the Fairy and star Alexandra Danilova as the Bride, completely uninspiring...
This week the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo wound up its longest run of ballet in Manhattan history. Two reasons for its success: Chief Choreographer George Balanchine. Prima Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, once his wife. Of 24 ballets in the Ballet Russe's Manhattan repertory this season, eight were Balanchine's. The best, Concerto Barocco, consisted of a few hippy girls in black swim suits, against a plain blackdrop, contorting their bodies in strict but living counterpoint to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor. It had none of the splendiferous sets and costumes, the "story" told...
...Kind." Though Danilova has settled in the U.S., her most enthusiastic public is in London, the home of sad-faced Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks), her rival queen of ballet. The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina. But each recollects the occasion with a fine underline of feminine malice. Markova considered Danilova as "very handsome, plump. . . ." Danilova remembers Markova as "very thin, very tiny . . . I try to be kind...
Government to subsidize ballet. Says she: "A bunch of foreigners have brought the ballet into the country - now I would like that it could stay and be an American institution." Monte Carlo's Queen. In the severe Russian tradition, Danilova started training at eight, when her aunt put her in the Imperial Theater School in St. Petersburg. Through nine cold and hungry years Danilova struggled to make the corps of Moscow's famed Maryinsky Theater, the tough and thorough proving ground for Imperial School pupils. In her second year at Maryinsky, Alexandra danced the lead in Stravinsky...
...death, the Ballet Russe was taken over by an ex-Cossack, Colonel Wassily de Basil, has since split into a number of pieces, each claiming to be the truest chip off the old block. Markova eventually became No. 1 ballerina of the heavily subsidized, well-promoted Ballet Theatre. Danilova has spent seven years as queen bee of a company called the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which has a ballet corps well drilled in ex-Husband Balanchine's intricate geometric designs but is woefully short of top dancers...