Word: svetlana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convincing demonstration of the kind of high-caliber reserve talent the Royal Ballet can call on when it needs to. Margot Fonteyn's enchainement (linked movements) looked as poised and effortless as everybody expected; there was also some lithe, beautifully filigreed dancing by Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina, Svetlana Beriosova. Solitaire, a less panoplied affair, unfolded the story of a girl who does not belong, and tries to break into the games of "the insiders." Anya Linden, in the lead, expressed her loneliness in a series of crabbed progressions that contrasted harshly and movingly with the tossing gusto...
...London's Covent Garden last week, the curtain opened on an intriguing pair of firsts: the first all-British full-length ballet, for which Benjamin Britten had composed his first ballet score. It was written especially for Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova, rising young (23) star of the Sadler's Wells Ballet...
...sense, the casting of Ballerina Beriosova as the female lead was more interesting than either plot or music, for it was further indication that she is the heiress presumptive to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Born in Lithuania, Svetlana trained in New York and Paris, joined Sadler's Wells in 1950. With the retirement of Dancer Violetta Elvin (to marry for the third time), Beriosova stepped into more and more of Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent...
...Furtseva, 46, an alternate member of the Soviet Party Presidium and wife of the Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia, arrived in London on her first trip to the West. Slated to be a fort night's guest of the British Inter-Parliamentary Union, Comrade Furtseva, accompanied by her daughter Svetlana, 14, overflowed with gratitude for her invitation, glowingly lauded the growing affinity between the U.S.S.R. and the country of "Newton, Shakespeare and Byron...
They are Mary Chandler, Eliot Hall and New York City, a History and Literature major; Irene D. Hecht, Cambridge, History; Svetlana Liontieff, Cambridge, History and Literature; Anne Ruggles, Barnard Hall and Dallas, Texas, Anthropology; and Sheila Ungeheuer, Cambridge, History and Literature...