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Saturday the company danced its version of Swan Lake, which may surpass the Bolshoi's. One of the longest and most poignant classical ballets, inherited almost unaltered from Petipa and the nineteenth century Imperial Russian ballet, it provides the British company the ideal opportunity to show off its greatest strength -- the corps de ballet...
...this complicated man, whose art can also be readily understood not because it is merely simple but because it is the single outcome of many conflicting forces. His poetry leaps with disconcerting metamorphoses at every turn of speech. The bullets that "a stringy policeman" counts become rosary beads. The swan-shaped boats on the ornamental ponds of the Boston Public Garden become mythological birds taking his grandfather, Arthur Winslow, beyond Charles River to the Acheron where the wide waters and their voyager...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "Ballet Gala" features principal dancers from Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, London's Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet performing excerpts from Swan Lake, Don Quixote and Romeo and Juliet...
Besides pitting Bruhn and Nureyev against each other, the two companies squared off with competing full-length versions of the seemingly inexhaustible classic, Swan Lake. Here the Americans scored an ironic coup, for their production was staged by a premier danseur of the Royal Ballet, David Blair. By going back largely to the seminal 1895 production in St. Petersburg, Blair restored the choreographic brilliance of the work; but he also added dances of his own and reshuffled the story with a knowing eye for drama. The result-handsomely mounted and costumed-was not only the most substantial Swan Lake...
...York ballet buffs, it was a sample of more to come. This week Royal Ballet Stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn make their first appearances of the season; and next week the American Ballet Theater will arrive for a month with its new, widely heralded, full-length Swan Lake...