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...company's most polished virtuoso. Around the 32-year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other...
...York, the Bolshoi company watched the City Ballet rehearse three works by George Balanchine (see below). The Russians applauded the U.S. group's discipline, but were clearly puzzled by a modern style alien to their own. At one point during Stravinsky's atonal Agon (1957), Ballerina Galina Ulanova unbelievingly recalled an earlier (1911), romantic work by the same composer. "This," she asked a companion, "is the same Stravinsky who wrote Petrouchka...
...Giselle, the famous role that she danced for the first time 27 years ago, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova last week at the Metropolitan Opera House showed why, at 49, she is the world's greatest ballerina. Even to an audience already keyed to a series of Bolshoi successes, the evening was a triumph-and Ulanova's performance a genuine masterpiece of the theater...
...Ulanova displayed a mastery so complete that technique itself seemed to disappear, letting emotion flood the stage. In the first act Ulanova was a shy girl, trembling with anguish and expectation on the edge of maturity. In a remarkable series of movements, expressions and gestures, she mimed her unfolding first love, with its joys and terrors wavering through her like a fever. At first as tremulous in her movements as a butterfly fluttering from a chrysalis, she broadened her movements as the act progressed into ardently flowing figures that beautifully and simply evoked her stirring feelings. After her betrayal...
...Ulanova does not have the biggest mass following in Russia: younger fans prefer 32-year-old Maya Plisetskaya (TIME, May 4). But Ulanova is the most revered Russian dancer (perhaps the most revered Russian artist in any field), and was even before she moved to the Bolshoi Company in 1944. Born in St. Petersburg in 1910, she was introduced to the dance early: her father, Sergei Ulanov, was a member of the corps at the famed Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theater, and her mother, Maria Romanova, a Mariinsky soloist and teacher at the St. Petersburg Ballet School. At first Galina...