Word: nureyev
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...thing is certain: since Italian Dancer Paolo Bortoluzzi left Maurice Béjart's Brussels-based Ballet of the Twentieth Century to join the American Ballet Theater in June, he has caused more excitement in the U.S. than any male dancer since Rudolf Nureyev leaped through the Iron Curtain...
...disappointment of these new ballets is somewhat redeemed by such familiar delights as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Romeo and Juliet. But generally the work of the company betrays a certain unease. It may be that MacMillan and his dancers have not yet struck the right working relationship. If so, MacMillan did not improve matters by staying in London, leaving esprit, not to mention foot work, to others...
...Kennedy joined TIME's Chicago bureau, later came to New York to become one of our most prolific "entertainment specialists," writing a dozen covers including those on rock 'n' roll, Rowan and Martin, Rudolf Nureyev, and the Frazier-Ali championship bout. Not long after he wrote our cover on television commercials, Kennedy, his wife Patsy and their eight children made a few commercials themselves...
...America and Asia, but they have yet to develop a major choreographer of their own or a ballerina of international repute. Thus when the company finally got up the courage to assault the U.S. for a ten-week tour, Co-Directors Peggy van Praagh and Robert Helpmann cajoled Rudi Nureyev into appearing as guest artist in his own staging of Don Quixote; they also imported New Zealand-born Lucette Aldous of Britain's Royal Ballet to dance the heroine...
...result was a streamlined reproduction of the Leningrad-Kirov Don Quixote that Nureyev had learned as a young dancer. The old knight, played by Helpmann himself, tottered through a swirl of swinging Spanish skirts, roistering toreadors and intricate incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea. The Don thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay...