Word: lezhnina
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...pleasures, both small and large. In one charming vignette, a great-bellied guru beats time as he teaches a tiny girl some basic gestures of Indian classical dance. Much of a segment on stage performance compares Bando Tamasaburo, a Kabuki star who excels in female roles, with Larissa Lezhnina, a dazzling young ballerina of Russia's Kirov Ballet. In surprisingly complementary ways, their performances -- his in a dance-drama called Dojoji, hers in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty -- embody Eastern and Western ideals of womanhood...
Theme and Variations featured Larisa Lezhnina, 20, a richly talented Kirov prospect. But her consort, Ruzimatov, literally got in her way. Defeated by the partnering in the pas de deux, in which the woman must execute many steps while appearing to move languorously, he acted like a man caught in a turnstile. In one Montreal performance, Lezhnina was forced to retract her extended...
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