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...Europe, South America and Asia, but they have yet to develop a major choreographer of their own or a ballerina of international repute. Thus when the company finally got up the courage to assault the U.S. for a ten-week tour, Co-Directors Peggy van Praagh and Robert Helpmann cajoled Rudi Nureyev into appearing as guest artist in his own staging of Don Quixote; they also imported New Zealand-born Lucette Aldous of Britain's Royal Ballet to dance the heroine...
...result was a streamlined reproduction of the Leningrad-Kirov Don Quixote that Nureyev had learned as a young dancer. The old knight, played by Helpmann himself, tottered through a swirl of swinging Spanish skirts, roistering toreadors and intricate incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea. The Don thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay...
...Once they got their knickers off, I said 'Fine, now do something clever.' But they didn't." That was Sir Robert Helpmann's critique of Oh! Calcutta! Arriving for an engagement in his native Australia, the dancing knight of London's Royal Ballet was eager to treat a group of Down Under newsmen to his impressions of New York's latest word in nude theater. "Dirty, smutty and boring," judged Helpmann, 60. Did he think the nude mood could ever spread to ballet? "Oh, no, no, no!" he protested, recoiling in mock horror...
...PLAYHOUSE. The Soldier's Talc. Stravinsky's ballet, starring Robert Helpmann and Svetlana Beriosova...
...glitter of curtain-wall skyscrapers; the Royal reflects the spacious, gracious luster of Britain's princely mansions. Choreographically, the City Ballet shines best in one-act works. The Royal prefers full evening ballets in the classic tradition, like Kenneth MacMillan's fustian Romeo, and Juliet, Sir Robert Helpmann's production of Swan Lake, and Rudolph Nureyev's Nutcracker...