Word: nureyev
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Across Lincoln Center at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, an evening of sheer visceral joy was conjured up by Britain's Royal Ballet. The chief magician was Rudolf Nureyev, the company's conspicuous permanent guest artist. Following Kenneth MacMillan's disappointing Manon, which inaugurated the Royal's five-week New York-Washington, D.C. season, Nureyev scored a double success. He danced an impressive debut in the comic ballet La Fille Mal Gardée. On the other half of the program was a scene from La Bayardère, the "white ballet" he restaged...
Such a repetitious maneuver is exquisite torture for the corps de ballet, but it danced with a purity of feeling and tautness of leg muscle that did not falter. Nureyev's staging was a light modern gloss on the original Petipa choreography. It was also an exercise in personal nostalgia: La Bayardère is the crown jewel of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet where Nureyev was trained...
...Paul Morrissey, "She has fiendish beauty." Then he described Monique's role. "She gets loved to death. Monique makes love to the monster, and he embraces her so passionately that he crushes her backbone. It's all in 3-D." Dimensions intact, Monique turned up at Rudolf Nureyev's opening night with the National Ballet Company of Canada in Manhattan last week on the arm of Warhol. Hugging them both, but not enough to crush their backbones, she declared, "I love Rudolf," then added, "I love Andy too, but in a different...
With his dance-tired feet stuffed into a pair of worn and obviously comfortable shoes, Rudolf Nureyev-perhaps the world's greatest danseur noble -accepted the annual Dance Magazine award in Manhattan. His speech was hardly audible, a sentence thanking the people who had helped him since he fled the U.S.S.R. During those twelve years in the West, Rudolf has performed mostly with the Royal Ballet, and is now touring with the National Ballet of Canada. Except for old friends like Dancer Erik Bruhn and Actress Monique Van Vooren, his life is a solo...
...visual impact of Nureyev's Beauty is staggering. Yet after a while the memory of the dancing blurs, overwhelmed by the lavish costumes and staging. As a dance vehicle, it is less than successful for an audience nurtured on modern dance; as a theater piece it is a triumph...