Word: vinogradov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dance capital of the world. Local fans are well informed and tough. Balanchine, who died in 1983, is still very much the presiding genius, and the purity and speed of his choreography set the pace. In addition to the perennial Giselle and some short pieces, Kirov artistic director Oleg Vinogradov brought his new production of The Sleeping Beauty and -- displaying either guts or foolhardiness -- two Balanchine ballets...
...Kirov does not take a diversion like Le Corsaire very seriously. In the case of a masterpiece like Sleeping Beauty, Vinogradov sticks to tradition. The sets and costumes are pastel and pretty. What stands out beyond the spectacle or even the dancing is the warmth of the manners the characters show to one another. The Russians know how to animate never-never land...
DIED. Ivan M. Vinogradov, 91, Soviet mathematician and one of the world's experts in number theory, an abstruse specialty concerned with the properties of whole numbers; in Moscow. As director of the Institute of Mathematics since 1932, he reportedly used his considerable power to keep Jewish mathematicians out of the scientific establishment's upper levels...
...Vinogradov, 44, is now working on a ballet about the life of Charlie Chaplin. He intends to invite Maurice Béjart to stage it in Leningrad. The gossip is that Vinogradov was brought into the Kirov five years ago to liven things up and keep the younger generation of dancers interested. Vinogradov is a snappy dresser who likes wide pinstripes or a modified cowboy look. He seems to emerge from a Soviet equivalent of gilded youth, cosmopolitan, familiar with the latest trends in all the arts. His choreography is similar to that of several young Americans and Europeans...
...comforting, though, that Vinogradov has another invitation in mind, although there is no channel through which to send it. "My dream is that Balanchine would come back to Leningrad and do something with us," he says. "If only that were in the stars. Balanchine is one of the gods. After Petipa he is No. 2-among living choreographers, No. 1." If that assessment of the great classicists reflects Vinogradov's priorities, the Kirov is in safe hands. -By Martha Duffy