Word: moiseyev
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Ginger Rogers Show (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).-Grand news: Old Hoofer Rogers kicks up her heels on TV, with the uplifting presence of Ray Bolger to help her over the jumps. The antique Ritz Brothers may need even more help as they try to parody Russia's superb Moiseyev Dance Company. Unfortunately missing from the party: Fred Astaire, who starts his own new show this week (see below...
...meritorious service in developing Soviet art," the U.S.S.R. awarded the Order of Lenin to wiry Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, director of the whirling, high-jumping folk-dance troupe that wowed U.S. audiences on its coast-to-coast tour last spring...
With Manhattan at their dancing feet, 90 remarkable Russians launched a seven-week campaign this week to sweep through eleven other U.S. and Canadian cities across the continent. The invaders: Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company (TIME, April 14). Every night for three weeks the standees jostled four deep behind the Metropolitan Opera's ropes, and even the ushers stared popeyed at the stage. Orchestra seats went on the black market for $80 a pair, but few could be had. Night after night, audiences (total: 79,000, who paid $365,000) rose in cheering ovations. Impresario Sol Hurok...
Manhattan's love affair with the Moiseyev-running concurrently with Moscow's crush on U.S. Pianist Van Cliburn (TIME April 21-28)-went on offstage too. Every time the dancers left their Times Square hotel (where they insisted on making their own beds), they were followed by curious throngs, snapped by photographers, interviewed by newsmen. The girls went on Fifth Avenue shopping sprees, passed opinions about the chemise ("all right for the not too fat"), Americans ("very friendly"), Manhattan ("too noisy"), the Broadway musical West Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed...
...told, the Moiseyev Dancers will visit eleven cities across the U.S. and Canada. If their experience in London and Paris is any indication, their Russian hoedowns will please the crowds, whet their appetite for the Bolshoi, which is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. in spring...