Word: swans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pyrotechnics in favor of a leisurely, unified, deliberately understated approach. Where the Bolshoi version strives for brilliance and momentum, the Kirov version was poetic and withdrawn-more of a spectacle than an unfolding drama. To many observers, the performance was unsatisfactory-but the Kirov productions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake easily made up for it. Substantially different from the version offered by Britain's Royal Ballet (the famous fish dives were omitted from the pas de deux in Act III), the Kirov Sleeping Beauty was by general consensus more graceful than any ever seen on an English stage...
...Swan Lake, the Kirov version proved the hit of the English dance season; the usually reserved audience stopped the show with applause twice in the first act. Less concerned with literary plot than most Western versions, the Kirov Swan Lake offered superb dancing executed at unusually slow tempi. Star of the evening was Inna Zubkovskaya, who put on such a virtuoso display that the audience scarcely noticed that the company omitted the thirty-two fouettés that are a feature of the third act in most performances. With Zubkovskaya. Irina Kolpakova, who danced Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty...
...fronting on the Common, their windows shining purple in the sun. Originally colorless, the constant glare of the sun permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing so much as London's Hyde Park, with its vehement soapbox oratory...
...Research Associate in Physiology, Mrs. Hilda Weyl Sokol, will study fish endocrinology. Two poets, Mrs. Maxine W. Kumin and Mrs. Anne Sexton (who never attended college), will work at the Institute, in addition to painters Mrs. Lois Swirnoff and Mrs. Barbara Swan...
...Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief. Appearing in the lead roles in Miss Julie, based on the theme of Strindberg's chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with such a legendary dancing pair as Nijinsky and Karsavina...