Word: ulanova
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monday, March 12: Slavic Society Film: The Great Ballerina, about Galina Ulanova, and The Sea Gull, play by Anton Chekhov. In Russina with English subtitles. 277 Science Center...
...risk." In Hurok's case, the impresario was also a man who changed and enriched the taste of a people and persuaded nations to become cultural friends. For more than 50 years he brought to the U.S. the performing geniuses of his native Russia: Pavlova, Chaliapin, Oistrakh, Ulanova. His proudest accomplishment? "Bringing ballet to America and the American public to ballet...
With a smile and a hint of boyish pride, the stout man in horn-rimmed glasses ushered Galina Ulanova into the three-room hotel suite. For the leading dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, freshly arrived in New York on a first visit to the U.S., only the finest would do. In her refrigerator Ulanova found champagne, caviar and other necessities of the ballet life. Everywhere she looked there were flowers. In the sitting room stood the biggest surprise: a specially constructed exercise bar backed by floor-length mirrors. "So, my dear," said the man, "you can practice here...