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...years Valery Panov was the premier dancer in Russia. His wife Galina was a ballerina of exhilarating potential. Then, in March of 1972, Panov, who is a Jew, and Galina, who is not, applied for permission to emigrate to Israel. Refusal was accompanied by stunning repercussions: Panov's dismissal from Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, his wife's ignominious demotion, and subsequent denial of the couple's right to dance...
Last week in Philadelphia, the Panovs presented their visiting card to the Western Hemisphere. Dance buffs looked forward to the couple's debut with foreboding as well as anticipation. Two years' enforced idleness could have seriously impaired 25-year-old Galina's abilities. For Valery, 36, it might have meant physical deterioration. The big question was: Can the Panovs still dance well? The answer was a resounding...
...auditorium, the Panovs performed on a small, bare platform. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra played on a raised stage behind them, causing Conductor Robert Zeller to cast uneasy glances across his shoulder to check music-dance synchronization. Temporarily blinded by a megawatt supertrooper rock-show spotlight, Galina lost sight of her husband and missed a lift during the grand pas de deux from The Nutcracker. " 'Where are you, Valery?' I cried to myself," she said later. However, in The Lady and the Hooligan, a Shostakovich ballet, Galina's feathery pirouettes and Panov's dramatic aerial twists...
Their dancing continued to gain in strength and grace. By the time they arrived at the showy display of Riccardo Drigo's Harlequinade, Panov's springy jeté and Galina's whirlwind fouettes (whipping one-leg turns) were evidence enough that for them the two years had been stopped time, not lost time...
...Aviv's Palace of Culture was tense with the hope of a long deferred promise about to be gloriously fulfilled. Valeri Panov and his wife Galina Ragozina were making their first appearance in the West, after two years of enforced idleness in Leningrad waiting for emigration visas. After a sparkling pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the audience of 3,000 relaxed, relieved to discover that the two dancers easily reestablished their reputations. Said one fan: "He took off like a jet." And when the Panovs completed the program with Valeri's own choreography...