Word: nureyev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Ballet, which old fans still nostalgically refer to as the Sadler's Wells Ballet, opened with Romeo and Juiet. The company has filmed the ballet with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn, truly the most remarkable pair in the ballet world. Dame Morgot, now 48, dances the role of the 14-year-old Juliet with an unmatchable combination of grace and young ardor. Nureyev has often been likened to the legendary Nijinsky, le Dieu de la Danse, as the Edwardians called him before he went...
Merle Park and Antony Dowell danced Romeo and Juliet Wednesday. They had the powerful ghosts of Nureyev's Romeo and Fonteyn's Juliet to contend with, but they emerged more than successful. While Dowell lacks Nureyev's muchnoised animal magnetism and Miss Park misses Fonteyn's poise, they give the parts a charm and sincerity which explain well Shakespeare's rather sudden and convoluted plot...
...Honey Pot's sweetest moments come when Harrison is trading double entendres with his ex-mistress or pirouetting around his mansion like Nureyev on LSD. But even he cannot fix the film's flaws...
Musty & Misty. By contrast, much of the Royal Ballet production looked musty as well as misty. Yet in the fervent fluidity of their corps de ballet, and particularly in the incandescent performances of Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, the Londoners had an asset that the Ballet Theater version, ably danced as it was, could not match. Dame Margot, 48 this week, has distilled the Odette-Odile role to a consummate purity. She did not seem to project it so much as to be devoured by it, until it was almost impossible, in Yeats's words, to "know the dancer from...
...their nights off, they crossed over regularly to watch the competition at work. Bruhn and Nureyev not only caught each other's performances, but also worked out in classes together and occasionally took off on the town. And lest anyone make too much of the rivalry between them and their companies, Nureyev spoke for everybody when he said: "We don't clash. We have different things...