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...Natalia Bessmertnova, a slight, dark, fawnlike creature, is a dancer of a wholly different mold. In the title role of Giselle last week, she was all gossamer and grace, a supremely lyrical figure with feathery leaps and arms like ribbons floating in the breeze. Her total involvement, wonderfully reflected in an oval face graced with large, waiflike eyes, lent a touching poignancy to the old story of young love gone astray...
Lest all the adulation turn their heads, Bolshoi Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich is carefully guarding the careers of his two prize youngsters. Says he: "Yuri and Natalia are still developing, still rounding off the angles. At this stage, it is difficult to see them clearly, but one thing is certain: there is no ceiling in sight...
...gallery window, Murphy discovered the cubist masters. He took art lessons from Diaghilev's designer, Natalia Goncharova, who would not let him paint anything recognizably real. Then he began to follow his own bent, meticulously rendering real objects in a bright, orderly manner. His first painting, Razor, done in 1922, was a heraldic crossing of a safety razor and a fountain pen below a matchbox, backed up by angular cubist meanderings. Another painting, 6 ft. by 6 ft., showed giant watchworks. Portrait detailed Murphy's foot and its inky imprint, three true thumbprints, and a prototype profile...
...That's quite a name you've got there," Bolshoi Ballet Master Leonid Lavrovsky told the young ballerina. "If you turn out to be a good dancer you can keep it." The dancer's name was Natalia Bessmertnova, and since in Russian that means Natalie the Immortal, its owner seemed destined to carry it awkwardly-like a steamer trunk with fancy labels. Last week, with barely two months as a Bolshoi soloist behind her, Bessmertnova was established in Moscow's excited ballet world as decidedly bessmertnova-even more so, said her teachers, than the immortal Ulanova...
...final curtain, the count had risen by another 77 corpses, with a crucifixion or two thrown in. A feast at the Villa of Crassus provided an excuse for a seduction scene (by Ballerina Natalia Ryzhenko) and some writhing by 15 Cadiz dancing girls, all of them bare considerably south of the navel. Khatchaturian's thunderous score omitted scarcely a single cliché of film music, and not even Plisetskaya was equal to the absurdities of her role as Spartacus' wife. As Spartacus himself, the Bolshoi introduced a giant (Dmitry Begak) who danced just about the way a giant...