Word: pavlova
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diaghilev's unscrupulous logic and charm dominated the stages of Europe. He founded and directed the Ballets Russes. He was the first to create theatrical spectacles with a mix of dance, painting and music. Under his guidance, Stravinsky and Prokofiev composed; Picasso and Matisse painted; Nijinsky and Pavlova danced; Massine and Balanchine choreographed...
...Nijinsky; in London. Karsavina first danced with the Maryinsky (now the Kirov) Ballet, then joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes for their first Paris season in 1909. A dancer of great beauty who made her every gesture expressive, she was often contrasted with her more classical colleague, Anna Pavlova. After the Russian Revolution she fled to England, where she became the country's best-loved dancer, appearing as a guest artist through the 1920s. She later worked with English Choreographer Frederick Ashton, advised Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, and wrote an eloquent autobiography (Theatre Street) that stands...
...Children of Theater Street are, in fact, the students of Leningrad's Vaganova Institute, perhaps the most distinguished school of the dance in the world (its graduates include Pavlova, Nijinsky, Balanchine, Nureyev, Makarova and Baryshnikov). This earnest documentary, which never quite gets up on point, offers a comprehensive view of the life and hard work of present-day students at the institute. Along the way there are trots through the school's history and considerable crosscutting to onstage performances by the great Kirov company, for which the school supplies dancers, and to the more experimental Maly company, also...
DIED. Uday Shankar, 76, India's most celebrated dancer and brother of Sitarist Ravi Shankar; of heart and kidney disease; in Calcutta. Shankar began his career as a painter but at 21 was discovered by Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova and invited to accompany her on a tour of the U.S. A decade later he returned to New York with his own troupe and introduced to the West a lavish, dramatic version of classic Indian dance. His dream, Shankar proclaimed, was to "create an atmosphere where the soul of India could speak...
Engaged. Patricia Bowman, 67, the "American Pavlova" who opened Radio City Music Hall in 1932 with Ray Bolger, later danced with Ballet Theater; and Albert Kaye, 75, retired theatrical producer, who 40 years ago had hired her to choreograph a ballet. At the time, Kaye proposed to Bowman, but she refused to mix marriage and a career. Last fall Widower Kaye proposed again, and this time she accepted...