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...about that point, one night last week, Sadler's Wells Star Margot Fonteyn ceased to be a ballerina and became the bird she intended to portray. The ballet: Firebird, dreamed up in 1910 for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by the late, style-making Choreographer Michel Fokine and style-shaking Composer Igor Stravinsky...
Firebird was no novelty to the U.S. The Col. de Basil company toured it in the '40s, and George Balanchine's New York City Ballet has done a shortened version -carefully avoiding such delicacies as the soul-in-the-egg. The Sadler's Wells version was faithful to the original choreography of 1910. In fact, it captured the old spirit so well that the once-daring Stravinsky music began to sound just like Mussorgsky with wrong notes...
...Ballets. Backing up Ballerina Fonteyn is an impressive company. Men are a notorious Sadler's Wells' weakness, but Michael Somes, Fonteyn's self-effacing partner, has developed into a fine danseur noble. And Brian Shaw, with his soaring leaps and flickering feet, is a dancer who can hold his own in any company. Some of the most exciting dancing is provided by the company's newest ballerina, leggy young (22) Svetlana Beriosova. She is less technically accomplished than some of the older soloists, but last week, dancing Fonteyn's role of Princess Aurora for only...
...such productions as Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells puts on the kind of ballet no U.S. company can match. But Sadler's Wells has always tried manfully to prove that it could also excel in a style more up-to-date than storybook romanticism. Its success in this field has been indifferent...
...Sadler's Wells foray into modernism so far has produced nothing to match the austere abstractions of the New York City Ballet, the Times Square gaieties and psychological thrillers of Ballet Theater. But Dame Ninette's charming people are truly at home and unsurpassed in the dazzling Never-Never-Land of romantic ballet...