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...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...
Twas love and ambition, not politics, that prompted the current grand jete of defecting Soviet dancers. Natalia Makarova of the Kirov Ballet, according to rumor, managed to fall in love during the Kirov's London performance and may be offered a leading role in Rudolf Nureyev's new ballet...
...Margot Fonteyrt has talked of retiring for several years. But each season, when the Royal Ballet makes its regular visit to the U.S., there is Dame Margot, with Fellow Superstar Rudi Nureyev, nearly as captivating as ever. During the current tour, for instance, she may have looked a shade worn to be doing The Sleeping Beauty. But her Juliet was so youthfully supple that she seemed to yield to Nureyev's lifts like some delicately submissive scarf of chiffon...
English Charm. Fonteyn and Nureyev have been dancing a great deal in New York. But many of the major roles and productions have also been performed by dancers other than the leading couple. Circumstances in the company, too, have encouraged an assessment of the Royal Ballet's talent and future-with or without Fonteyn...
Jump for Joy. The best-matched couple for doing such things as Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet and Daphnis and Chloë are Antoinette Sibley, 31, and Anthony Dowell, 26. They work together as often as Nureyev and Fonteyn but could hardly be more different in style. For Nureyev's lynxlike power and dramatic presence, Dowell, who greatly resembles the Royal Danish Ballet's Erik Bruhn, substitutes the cool grace and the effortless movement of a danseur noble. Compared with Fonteyn's magical feminine magnetism, Sibley seems shy, vulnerable and distant. But she moves in such harmony...