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Severe in stiffened white net and a feathered crown, Prima Ballerina Tamara Karpova delicately wafts across the stage. Rising onto her toes, she pirouettes daintily. The audience starts to giggle. If her style is classic, Karpova's form decidedly is not. No long-limbed Balanchine girl she. At 5 ft. 6½ in., 160 lbs., Karpova's silhouette more closely resembles a sack of potatoes than a royal bird. The house shakes with laughter as her playmates, a brawny quartet of swans who differ vastly in shape and size, galumph through the imaginary forest. Disdainfully, the Black Rhinestone...
...scheduled to rehearse with the orchestra two hours earlier. When a Harvard official finally located him after remembering that Rostropovich had stayed at the Colonnade on his last trip to Boston, the cellist sat sulking and refused to go to the rehearsal. "He just wanted to play prima donna when he wasn't met at the airport. He specifically didn't go to Symphony, even though he could have been there 20 minutes before the rehearsal. He happens to be very temperamental," the official, who asked not to be identified, said. Only after a barrage of pleas did Rostropovich agree...
...second world premiere, John Neumeier's Hamlet Connotations. Hamlet was played by Mikhail Baryshnikov, who with every performance is proving himself not only a wonderful classical dancer but also a superb actor. Ophelia was his frequent partner, the elfin Gelsey Kirkland. Gertrude was danced by Marcia Haydee, prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet, who is appearing for the first time with A.B.T. this season. Denmark's Erik Bruhn, in his prime a great danseur noble, was Claudius...
Died. Tilly Losch, seventyish, prima ballerina of the 1920s and '30s, whose supple, fluid movements enchanted audiences of the Vienna State Ballet until she began a second career that included musicals with the Astaires and roles in such movies as The Good Earth and The Garden of Allah; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Star Policy. Cynthia Gregory quitting dance? Rudolf Nureyev has called her America's prima ballerina assoluta. At 29, she is one of the most admired dancers of the present generation in the U.S.-or anywhere else. Inevitably, many dance enthusiasts wondered whether her sudden exit might be the beginning of a mass exodus that could cripple A.B.T...