Word: tamasaburo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WNET in cooperation with RM Arts and BBC-TV. Dancing has its pleasures, both small and large. In one charming vignette, a great-bellied guru beats time as he teaches a tiny girl some basic gestures of Indian classical dance. Much of a segment on stage performance compares Bando Tamasaburo, a Kabuki star who excels in female roles, with Larissa Lezhnina, a dazzling young ballerina of Russia's Kirov Ballet. In surprisingly complementary ways, their performances -- his in a dance-drama called Dojoji, hers in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty -- embody Eastern and Western ideals of womanhood...
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