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...featuring the man whom Nureyev considers the finest male dancer in the world: Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Meanwhile, a few grand jetés across the Lincoln Center plaza, London's Royal Ballet twirled past the midpoint of its six-week season at the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Margot Fonteyn and the male dancer whom Nureyev considers second only to Bruhn: Nureyev...
...younger choreographers. For the Royal Ballet, the performance was the high point of its first two weeks in New York (the start of a four-month U.S. tour). For New York ballet buffs, it was a sample of more to come. This week Royal Ballet Stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn make their first appearances of the season; and next week the American Ballet Theater will arrive for a month with its new, widely heralded, full-length Swan Lake...
...Neon eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...
...Assembly. But before he could take his seat, his luck ran out. A disgruntled political crony shot him down in the street. Hit four times in the neck, shoulder and chest, Arias was left paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to speak. His political career seemed over. Dame Margot flew from London to be with him, took him back to Britain, where he was hospitalized for two years while he received medical care and therapy. Dame Margot gave up her jet-set social life to spend her offstage hours at his bedside. The convalescence was slow, painful and only...
Last week, back in Panama, Arias was helped into a convertible and driven with his wife through the streets of Panama City, in a sort of triumphal return marked by clusters of waving people along the way. With Dame Margot proudly pushing his wheelchair, he entered the National Assembly as it reconvened for 1967 and claimed the seat he had won more than two years ago. Six times in the course of the session, all 41 members, friend and enemy alike, stood and applauded Tito Arias for a victory far more impressive than any that has ever been...