Word: fouette
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...dancing master who instructs the ugly stepsisters starts his lesson with the opening phrase of Balanchine's Theme and Variations. The girls are played by male dancers (Johan Renvall and Thomas Titone) performing, Tchikaboumskaya-style, on pointe. In the ballroom scene, Renvall even tosses off some free-swinging fouettes, a bow to the legendary Pierina Legnani, who stunned St. Petersburg in 1893 by doing 32 fouettés in Cinderella...
...wait. Up onstage were none of the usual Bolshoi Ballet stars, no Plisetskayas or Vasilyevs, no familiar figures at all. In fact, although the dancers showed flashes of the rigorous technique and expressive line that mark the Bolshoi style, there was here and there an unaccustomed slip, a slack fouetté, a leaden lift. What, then, accounted for the electric atmosphere in the theater? Why was the audience applauding so encouragingly, pointing out dancers and scribbling notes in programs...
...calls out the British navy. Against a shimmering pastel backdrop of ships and harbor waters, the company reassembles for a flotilla of fun. Salutes, crawl strokes and the gestures associated with rope hauling are incorporated into Balanchine's choreographic concept as smoothly as the jeté and fouetté. The leader of a squad of WRENS (women's naval service), Farrell ambles sexily, as though she had a chip on her hip or, just perhaps, an invisible set of bagpipes. If such a thing as an apotheosis of the sidle can be imagined, Farrell has done...
Chance to Dance. But is it a great ballet? The steps are modern and functional, with never a tour jeté, never an entrechat or a grand fouetté. Manhattan first-nighters, who sat through its half-hour length with scarcely a rippling interruption of applause, demanded 16 curtain calls, with Jacqueline Kennedy clapping energetically enough for two. Nureyev's magnetic personality demands an audience's attention. In Swan Lake, he disclosed some of his enormous technical facility, and in Marguerite, with less chance to dance, he demonstrated that he can also act. But so much...
...first act. Less concerned with literary plot than most Western versions, the Kirov Swan Lake offered superb dancing executed at unusually slow tempi. Star of the evening was Inna Zubkovskaya, who put on such a virtuoso display that the audience scarcely noticed that the company omitted the thirty-two fouettés that are a feature of the third act in most performances. With Zubkovskaya. Irina Kolpakova, who danced Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, and Danseur Noble Vladilen Semenov, the company proved that it has lead dancers who can hold their own with any now on the stage...