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...current visit, the Kirov is offering three programs: an evening of Fokine ballets (Chopiniana, Scheherazade, The Firebird) and two full-length works, Swan Lake and Cinderella. The latter two have been staged by the Kirov's artistic director, Oleg Vinogradov, and it is here that the difficulty lies. In an effort to "modernize" the old fairy tales, to make them less bizarre, he has flattened the stories and made them, if anything, harder to follow...
...Swan Lake, why is Prince Siegfried so overwrought when he goes hunting if his mother has not commanded him to find a suitable bride? In this version she just hands her boy a bow and arrow and trips off, doubtless to a good gossip with her courtiers. Or why make such a fuss about a glass slipper when Cinderella's prince walks into her house and recognizes her without fitting the slipper on her foot...
...time to pay court to some kind of Russian mystique is over. American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake is better than the Kirov's capricious version in both concept and execution. With one exception: the Russian troupe's marvelously schooled corps de ballet in the so-called white act. With 30 women moving as a single impulse, a single exhalation of breath (A.B.T. has 24), the scene is rapturous and mesmerizing: unforgettable. It also shows that the Kirov is still capable of supreme classical dancing. Every troupe must refresh itself with innovation, but the evidence from New York is that...
...float around for a relaxing ride onBoston's famous Swan Boats which inhabit thelandscaped ponds of the French-inspired PublicGarden next to the Englishstyle Common...
...catalogs have a garden for every taste and timetable. White Swan markets the Moonlight Garden, a can of seeds for flowers, mainly white, that "reflect the moon and stars," for people whose long hours mean they only get to see their gardens at night. Eighteen dollars buys a straw mat from Smith & Hawken impregnated with 8,000 wildflower seeds, which the impatient gardener can roll onto an awaiting bed of dirt. Just add water...