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Three nights after the Kirov's debut, Sizova stopped the show again with Yuri Soloviev in a wildly exuberant pas de deux from Marius Petipa's Corsair, part of a program of excerpts that the troupe brought off with virtuosity and vigor...
...expected, the company's real successes were its full-flavored, full-length performances of the three-and four-act ballet classics, the Tchaikovsky-Ivanov Swan Lake and the Tchaikovsky-Petipa The Sleeping Beauty, which call for almost as much pantomime as dancing...
This week, in the first top-hat event of the season, first-nighters saw England's fine company do a Russian masterpiece the way it is still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann...
Balletomanes did not agree with the box office. They felt that Massine had slipped noticeably, both as a dancer and a choreographer. Best received numbers were two classic favorites, Le Spectre de la Rose (choreography by Fokine) and The Bluebird (by Petipa...
Ballet supremacy teetered between France and Italy until Russia raised it to its peak. Peter the Great imported Western dances. Catherine did more, and so did her mad son Paul. Thereafter a national ballet school flourished in Russia. The Classicist, Petipa, trained all his dancers until they had superlative technique. Isadora Duncan had an influence because of her free approach to music, her dominating personality. Michael Fokine appeared on the Russian scene with his own liberated ideas, introducing the ballets with which Sergei Diaghilev paved his way throughout the Western world...