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...Willis and save his soul. When the curtain finally came down on the American Ballet Theater's production of Giselle last week, the Manhattan audience threw flowers at the latest runaway genius from Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. For 25 semihysterical minutes, Baryshnikov and his partner, Natalya Makarova, who defected from the Kirov herself four years ago, were dragged back again and again for curtain calls...
...quick study, Bortoluzzi has learned five widely differing roles in only a few weeks for the current A.B.T. season. In Erik Bruhn's staging of Bournonville's La Sylphide, he portrayed the unhappy lover of an elusive sylph (Natalia Makarova) with something like delicacy and restraint. In Anton Dolin's Variations for Four, he stole the show with the sheer, pantherish abandon of his movements. As the young seducer in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, he was appropriately ardent. Last week, in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, he was a little...
...nation's oldest ballet troupe. Its star performers are second to none. Trouble is, there are almost as many styles as dancers, and more often than not, productions have a slightly underrehearsed look. Its secondary leads, and particularly the corps, vary from good to "good grief." When Natalia Makarova-the dazzling Russian defector who formerly starred with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet-floats to her forest glade in Swan Lake, the ragged corps resembles a Long Island duck farm rather than anything 19th century Choreographer Marius Petipa had in mind. Equally disheveled is a new ABT production this season...
Capitalist ways and wiles were almost too much for Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected from Russia's Kirov Ballet in England last fall, then moved to the U.S. Returning from a visit with friends, she and her good friend and interpreter Vladimir Rodzianko found that the locks had been changed on their Manhattan apartment: Landlady Irene Epstein claimed that Natalia and Vladimir owed telephone and electricity bills and had done $1,000 worth of damage. Chort vozmi! Natalia's costumes and specially made ballet shoes were inside, and she was about to go on tour with the American...
...weeks in the U.S., Makarova has worked at her technique with dedicated passion, taking classes every day and practicing when other dancers are resting. Rehearsing with a new partner, she does not hesitate to direct how she wants him to hold her, what variants she wants in the choreography, even how she wants him to act. Looking to the future, she is already working to master Jardin aux Lilas, the first of the relatively modern roles to which she aspires. After three weeks in New York, the company will start touring. Next fall it is scheduled to be in Washington...