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Underground publications in the Soviet Union are growing bolder and more political, Natalia Garbanevskaya, a former Soviet dissident, told a crowd of about 50 at Harvard's Russian Research Center yesterday...
Meaning business meant dealing fairly and sometimes toughly with the principals, the stars whose magnetism sells tickets. Few, if any, expected Baryshnikov to be appointed, and they were vocal in their misgivings about the leadership of a young Russian superstar. But they all stayed on: Natalia Makarova, Cynthia Gregory, Marline van Hamel, Marianna Tcherkassky, Fernando Bujones, Anthony Dowell. To them Misha's great gift is secure performance schedules, which have replaced last-minute fly-ins and broken promises of big evenings...
...monthlong Manhattan engagement of the new Makarova and Company ballet, which opened last week, gives dance on Broadway a slightly new turn. Rudolf Nureyev has frequently dropped in on the Great White Way, but always surrounded by a definitely subordinate cast of professionals. Natalia Makarova, probably the world's prima ballerina, aimed both higher and lower. She attracted a stunning array of top ballet stars: Fernando Bujones, Anthony Dowell, Cynthia Gregory, Denys Ganio, Elisabetta Terabust, Karen Kain and Peter Schaufuss. But to fill out the ranks, Makarova raided ballet schools for 29 youngsters, almost all lacking professional experience...
...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...