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...biggest night ever, before the most expensive audience in all Manhattan, she slipped-and very nearly fell on her face. Hardly anybody minded. For by that time, Natalia Makarova had demonstrated that she has that heart-stopping quality of a great dancer. As the doomed girl in Giselle, she had just executed a series of dazzling turns and was subsiding into a curtsy-the simplest of maneuvers. It was like a man who had scaled Mount Everest slipping in his shower...
Even more remarkable was that Natalia Makarova was dancing Giselle with an American company at all. Only four months ago she was a leading ballerina in Leningrad's famed Kirov Ballet, delighting audiences during the company's guest appearance in London. Then, suddenly, she became the most spectacular cultural defector since Nureyev 91 years ago. In seniority, anyway, she outranked him-making top money as an established star, with an apartment of her own and a servant. But unlike Nureyev, she had chosen to come to the U.S. and join an American company precisely to do the adventurous...
...young colleague set to Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette-only to have it turned down by the officials because it was "too openly erotic." Another ballet based on a picture by Picasso was also vetoed. Makarova quarreled with the grande doyenne of the Kirov Ballet, Madame Natalia Dudin-skaya, because she "preferred to try and impose her own rather stereotyped interpretation of each part." In spite of these disputes, she concedes: "I was at the top. I had danced all the leading roles in our national ballet repertoire...
...ladies from the U.S.S.R. were doing their bit for culture in London last week. For Lydia Gromyko, wife of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it was horticulture, as she dutifully sniffed and stared at the wares in the late autumn show of the Royal Horticultural Society. For Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected a couple of months ago from Russia and the Kirov Ballet, it was the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, danced for the cameras of the BBC with her fellow defector Rudolf Nureyev-a star at the Kirov when she was in the corps de ballet...
...Absolute nonsense!" That was Rudolf Nureyev's response to the rumor that Russian Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 29, who recently defected from the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, is replacing Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51, as his partner. As for Fonteyn, the prima ballerina sounded unconcerned about the possibility of his teaming up with Makarova. "Sometimes I dance with Nureyev and sometimes I don't," she said. "I dance with other partners, and so does he. I would very much like to see them dancing together some time...