Word: moiseyev
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...WHEN Moiseyev's Dance Company of the U.S.S.R. appeared in London in 1955, one critic was reminded of the Rockettes in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The parade-drilled precision is there, and so is the box-office pull. Next week the Moiseyev will give Americans their first close look at a major Soviet dance company. For a color preview of what Russian dance looks like when it is not poised on pointe, see Music, Soviet Pop Ballet. r RAGGED down by the auto indus-'-' try's slump, Detroit is the most recession-battered...
...explosive hop-stomp-and-run of the folk dance. Most Westerners have glimpsed some reflections of the Russian classical style; 'few have sampled the exuberant dance language of Russia's full folklore. Next week the U.S. will get its first good look at that language when the Moiseyev Dance Company, first major Soviet dance group ever to appear in the U.S., arrives at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House to start a ten-week tour...
...group, created by Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, 52, onetime soloist and ballet master at the Bolshoi, is only partially concerned with true folk dancing. In the company's history of 160 works are a generous sprinkling of what Moiseyev calls "popular ballets"-works that express contemporary themes in the casual movements of everyday life, a fusion reminiscent of the effect U.S. Choreographer Jerome Robbins achieves in such works as Fancy Free. Even in the straight folk dances Choreographer Moiseyev prunes and shapes his material to gain dramatic continuity and a clearly defined dance line. Says he: "We do not merely...
...breezy, peasant-sturdy Moiseyev Dancers will perform at least a dozen works in the U.S. (see color pages). Most of them are characterized by parade-drilled precision in the mass movements and a kind of frenzied kinetic attack that fills the air with flying forms and blurs the stage with color. The group's most popular number is a satire on Russia's favorite sport, entitled Soccer; in a dazzling mixture of mime, dance and spring-legged acrobatics, the work defines the brawling progress of a match, from the opening whistle to a spectacular save at the goal...
...opening-night audience stared pop-eyed at some choice Saturnalia and orgies, at an Egyptian belly dance and a Greek striptease, at gladiatorial combat in the arena. In his experimental dance technology, Moiseyev brilliantly scrapped most of the cliché-laden movements and figures of Russian classical ballet, while retaining classical techniques of body control. Moreover, Moiseyev did away with the traditional counterpoint between soloist and corps de ballet, made mass dancing the ballet's main feature ("My hero," says Moiseyev, "is the masses...