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...image of the firebird is one of the best known in ballet: a ballerina in a fantastical costume of glitter and feathers soaring through space in split leaps. The firebird most people have in mind, unconsciously or not, is Maria Tallchief, for whom George Balanchine created a dazzling version of the Stravinsky score in 1949. But Balanchine was not Stravinsky's first collaborator. In 1910 the composer and Choreographer Michel Fokine had worked out their conception at the piano...
...American Ballet Theater has gone back to the first Firebird for its latest, opulent new production. The impulse can scarcely be questioned: few companies have the resources to provide the public with a chance to step back in the history of movement. The sets are handsome mock-ups of those designed by Nathalie Gontcharova for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In Natalia Makarova the A.B.T. has a ballerina who understands an older tradition and makes it breathe...
...Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya. Why? "She has a good voice and red hair." Says Bette: "It's a dream come true. Next year, Firebird...
...What we are doing is not female impersonation," insists Primo Ballerino Bassae, 33, "it's a ballerina imitation. Nijinsky originally wanted to dance the Firebird so it's not something we discovered...
STRAVINSKY: THE FIREBIRD (Columbia...