Word: ulanova
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pianist Emil Gilels headed West for a guest appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the first U.S. performance by a topflight Soviet musician since 1921; Violinist David Oistrakh will come soon for a U.S. concert tour, followed, perhaps, by famed Ballerina Galina Ulanova...
Over the weekend, before the business sessions resumed, there were many attempts to restore cordiality. Adenauer invited all the Russian leaders out to the dacha they had lent him outside Moscow. The Russians gave a special performance of Romeo and Juliet, starring the great ballerina Ulanova, at the Bolshoi Theater. The ballet closes with the elders, Montague and Capulet, clasping hands in reconciliation. In the special box, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer rose and grasped the hands of Premier Bulganin and held them high. The audience burst into applause. Next day there was a festive lunch at which Khrushchev...
...Soviet Union's lissome Galina Ulanova, 44, a celebrated ballerina who also nimbly toes the political line, gave an audience to the New York Herald Tribune's comely Newshen Marguerite Higgins, who opened the conversation by asking: "Has your career . . . brought you happiness...
...Mathilde Kchessinska, once Czar Nicholas II's great & good friend, certainly one of the best dancers of all time and one of two ever to bear the lofty title of prima ballerina assoluta.* In Berlin last week, another ballerina was given that title by sentimental oldtimers: Galina Ulanova, 44, the darling of the Soviet Ballet...
Gymnastics & Glides. Leading Berlin ballet critics gave TIME this estimate: The corps is equal in precision and grace to any in the West. The male dancers are strong and athletic, but they are rarely graceful and are seldom soloists. Among the ballerinas, Galina Ulanova is not absolutely assoluta. When on pointes, she moves so delicately that she seems to glide, but Ulanova indulges in plenty of cape-swishing and distraught breast-beating. When she sticks to her own soft type of dance movement, she is superb. In classical technique, she is as good as the best U.S. ballerinas...