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...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...
...Only other to hold this internationally respected rank handed out by the Russian Imperial Ballet-and unused in the Soviet Union today-was Italy's Pierina Legnani, who startled the Russians with her famous 32 fouettés (whipping turns) in 1893. She died in 1923. Kchessinska, 81, still lives in Paris, with her husband, the Grand Duke André, 75. The Duke does the daily shopping while the Absolute Ballerina gives ballet lessons and does a little polite gambling on the side...
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