Word: lepeshinskaya
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...effect is potent and compelling. Back in Moscow, where she is preparing to travel to Edinburgh for the Dorian Gray premiere, Kolosova describes the reaction of the 91-year-old former Bolshoi ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya to Bourne's Swan Lake. Too frail to make it backstage from her box, the legendary People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. asked for a message to be sent to Bourne. "She wanted to tell him that this was the future," Kolosova recalls. "That this was the way forward...
...Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon-to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed to, it moved even dissenters to applaud at certain high points. The upper galleries, jammed with younger members of the audience, erupted in noise at the curtain. Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, a Bolshoi mainstay, remarked that although she was against abstract dancing in general...
...Lepeshinskaya and some of her colleagues also took an intensive series of soda-solution baths, with striking results: "Quick disappearance of fat, especially on the stomach; the resolution of old scars, and a general increase in fitness." She did not specify whether she had used washing soda, baking soda or some other sodium compound, but the professor warned that the baths should be taken only under a doctor's direction: there was evidence that the treatment could affect the red-corpuscle count of the blood. To doubting Western biologists, the whole theory sounded like nonsense...
While calling for further investigation of the matter, Lepeshinskaya contrived a tactful twang of the party line. "Laughter and gaiety also improve health," she said. "Our country is the happiest in the world. Statistics show that the average length of human life in the Soviet Union is the greatest in the world. The life of the Soviet people flowers under the sun of the Stalin Constitution...
...years to be confused with glamorous Prima Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, 34, one of the two ranking stars of the unrivaled ballet company of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...