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...home in Star City, the cosmonauts' training center, Tsibliyev's wife Larissa is more angry--at the Russian press--than worried. "I just wish they would report the truth," she told TIME. "Why are they picking on him? What kind of morals do our journalists have?" The space doctors, who give her regular reports, tell her Tsibliyev will be fine. He's no shirker, she says. "He's been a hard worker all his life. This speculation is all such nonsense...
Fortunately, these minor additions do not take away from the dancing itself, which could not be better. What is particularly complicated about Cinderella is that in telling the story, the dancers must emote and act as well as perform ballet steps. As Cinderella, Larissa Ponomarenko embodies innocence and beauty in their most graceful forms. She maneuvers through intricate steps and pirouettes with great spirit and energy. Equally graceful is the Prince (Patrick Armand), whose powerful leaps and emotional style lift him above the one-dimensional deux-es-machina role that he usually plays in other versions. Both the Dancing Master...
...name and the story of a seductive young woman in Spain who flirts her way into a violent and ultimately fatal love triangle. At the start of the dance, she seduces a Spanish corporal named Don Jose (Lazlo Berdo), who is in love with a meek girl named Micaela (Larissa Ponomarenko). When Don Jose is jailed for refusing to arrest Carmen, his wild new love captures Escamillo (Gino DiMarco), a proud bullfighter, with her charms. (Music lovers--the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" theme parades around at this point.) However, she runs away with Don Jose once...
...curtain opens on the sisters Tatiana and Olga in the garden of their estate, the light and airy pastels of the scenery form an ideal backdrop for the light-hearted dancing and the lovely innocence of young Tatiana (Larissa Ponamarenko), who is absorbed in a book. With the arrival of Olga's lover, Lensky, the young couple dance with neighborhood friends. Lensky is accompanied by his friend Onegin (Laszlo Berdo), a handsome Russian nobleman clad in black, with whom Tatiana immediately falls in love. That evening Tatiana composes a love letter to Onegin, and falls asleep only to dream...
Fortunately, the casting of Larissa Ponomarenko as Princess Aurora proved a bit more appropriate. One can easily envision Ponomarenko as a bubbly, vivacious 16-year-old once she begins fluttering across stage with a quirky elegance unmatched by anyone else in the production...