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Couple Concerts. For serious balletomanes the event of the week was the return of Igor Youskevitch, a gaunt, fierce-eyed, 34-year-old Slav, the greatest contemporary male classic dancer...
...University of Belgrade Kiev-born Igor Youskevitch studied chemical engineering and played soccer. "It was my second year when a ballerina there made a proposition for me to be her partner in an acrobatic dance," says Youskevitch. They were a success in Yugoslavia, so they went to Paris. "We did couple concerts. There we're flop. Then the ballerina had to go home. I think it was her husband or something...
...Youskevitch toured Australia and New Zealand with an itinerant company, then Leonide Massine made him the leading dancer in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. That brought him to America, where he was drafted and became a Navy physical-education instructor. He is married to ex-Ballerina Anna Scarpova. Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good." During his first week with the new Ballet Theater company Youskevitch appeared only in three short pas de deux with Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye. For the rest of the season he will dance leads...
...tendency to behave like a slap-happy amoeba-the troupes are different this year. In the finely trained Massine ballet are the most glamorous (Tamara Toumanova) and the most technically accomplished (Alexandra Danilova) of ballerinas, as well as three of the fleetest male dancers (Frederic Franklin, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky...
...David Lichine, choreographer as well as dancer-the massine troupe has four of the best: Roland Guerard of Flat Rock, N.C. one of the first U.S.-born Ballet Russers who was allowed to dance under his own name; Frederic Franklin, exuberant British onetime hoofer; and two genuine Russians, Igor Youskevitch and Andre Eglevsky. These dancers perform capably the difficult leaps, entrechats (crossing of the feet in midair) tours en l'air (twirls in the air) demanded by the classic style...