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...Flourish As a French student, I was quite surprised by many points of your article "In Search of Lost Time" [Dec. 3]. It is true there are no more figures like Camus, Sartre, Satie or Debussy in France. But we have such great artists as Le Clezio, Béjart and Boulez. Even philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is a bit famous in the U.S. Maybe Americans cannot cite French authors, but I don't think many French can cite more than three authors who are not thriller or detective-novel writers. There are many interesting original movies, plays...
...Latin influx. In contrast to the U.S., where training is haphazard except at a few top companies, many Latin countries have excellent ballet schools, often subsidized by the government, where youngsters are put through a rigorous classical regimen. Spain boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Béjart dancer Víctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided over by the indomitable Alonso...
...France with 90 dancers (another 100-odd are performing at home) and a 70-piece orchestra. Mostly the repertory is taken from the Kirov's gallery of classics-Swan Lake, Giselle, La Sylphide, La Bayadère-but there are a few modern works, including Maurice Béjart's Bhakti and a new work choreographed by Oleg Vinogradov, the Kirov's director. To Vinogradov the mix is about right. "This company is good enough to do any kind of choreography," he says, "but we are proud of our reputation as a museum, a Hermitage of choreography...
Vinogradov, 44, is now working on a ballet about the life of Charlie Chaplin. He intends to invite Maurice Béjart to stage it in Leningrad. The gossip is that Vinogradov was brought into the Kirov five years ago to liven things up and keep the younger generation of dancers interested. Vinogradov is a snappy dresser who likes wide pinstripes or a modified cowboy look. He seems to emerge from a Soviet equivalent of gilded youth, cosmopolitan, familiar with the latest trends in all the arts. His choreography is similar to that of several young Americans and Europeans...
...affair. Makarova's restaging of the Petipa choreography for Paquita, Act II evoked a muscular, high-flying performance by Bujones and a precise, rather chilly one from Terabust; the intricate variations fell to baby ballerinas who were rarely up to their tasks. Makarova and Dowell danced Béjart's Sonata No. 5 as if blindingly fused together, down to the last sinuous contortion and arbitrary tic. The world premiere of Vendetta, created for Makarova by Choreographer Lorca Massine, gave her the chance to put on a gypsy costume and flirt and shimmy with Dowell, Bujones and Ganio...