Word: panovs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Firebird and the pas de deux from Don Quixote before a packed Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and it was time for the orchestra to take a break. Helen Hagnes, 30, an attractive, blond, Canadian-born violinist told a friend that she was going to see Valery Panov, the Soviet-born choreographer and principal dancer for the Berlin Ballet, to ask him to pose for her sculptor husband, Janis Mintiks...
...never got to Panov's dressing room. Colleagues missed her when the company began dancing the ballet Miss Julie, in which a noblewoman (danced by Panov's wife Galina) seduces a servant and then, with his help, kills herself. The next morning, police found Helen Hagnes. She had been stripped naked, bound and gagged, and hurled 70 ft. from the Met's roof to her death in an air shaft...
...next evening some 35 police officers were on hand, including detectives in tuxedos, as the Berlin company performed Panov's staging of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. It is a ballet of terror and violence, in which the beautiful Natasya is murdered by her thwarted lover, Rogozhin. As his rival, Prince Myshkin, performed the final scene, a madman's vision of the world consumed by fire, the audience broke into wild applause...
...Panov said he believes the Russian ballet is the finest in the world, adding that the government provides the funds and support necessary for the disciplined training which ballet requires...
...Soviet system permits no creative expression, Panov said, adding he believes that dancers perform better with exposure to other schools of dance...