Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not take a diversion like Le Corsaire very seriously. In the case of a masterpiece like Sleeping Beauty, Vinogradov sticks to tradition. The sets and costumes are pastel and pretty. What stands out beyond the spectacle or even the dancing is the warmth of the manners the characters show to one another. The Russians know how to animate never-never land...
Differences between the two approaches show up starkly in the Kirov's foray into Balanchine: Scotch Symphony, set to Mendelssohn, and Theme and Variations, with its vibrant Tchaikovsky score. City Ballet's Suzanne Farrell and Francia Russell, a former soloist who is now co-artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, went to Leningrad to teach the works to the Kirov. Russell, who prepared Theme, had the harder assignment because the choreography is difficult for even Balanchine dancers. Both women learned that the no-nonsense rules they live by do not apply at the Kirov. By American standards, classes were...
...party General Secretary Jiang Zemin also met two foreign delegations--from Romania and Ethiopia--in a show of diplomacy as usual despite icy relations with Western governments protesting China's bloody supression of unarmed demonstrators...
ENVIRONMENT: With new global clout and responsibilities, Japan needs to show a greater regard for Mother Nature...
...sensational hearing a show for Washington, or does Castro have a personal motive? -- President Bush's visit to Poland and Hungary: positive changes -- and potential pitfalls. -- China's new General Secretary embodies the party line...