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Until then, there is plenty else to divert mind and, with the Currier House Dance Marathon, body. Last year's hugely successful Cultural Rhythms celebration returns to Sanders Theatre on Valentine's Day. The American Repertory Theatre has four productions, including works director by the Soviet director Yuri Lyubimov and by the Italian satirist Dario...
Last week the seemingly unthinkable happened. In one of the most startling turns yet in Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign of glasnost (openness), Baryshnikov was asked to visit Moscow to dance with the Bolshoi Ballet. The invitation came from Yuri Grigorovich, the artistic director of the Bolshoi, who was in the U.S. to arrange a tour by the Soviet company, which has not been to the U.S. since 1979. Baryshnikov hesitated. "That's very nice," he reportedly answered. "But I'll have to think about...
Baryshniknov is not the first prominent defector to receive feelers from Soviet officials about returning. Last week Ballerina Natalia Makarova got a similar offer from Grigorovich. The Soviets have also approached Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Novelist Vasily Aksyonov and Theater Director Yuri Lyubimov. Grigorovich noted that there is a new "atmosphere of openness" in the Soviet Union. Said he: "We now have a wise leader who is loved by the whole country...
Four years ago Soviet Director Yuri Lyubimov opened an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in London. Authorities in Moscow paid less attention to the rave reviews than to a London Times interview in which Lyubimov castigated Soviet censors for persistent interference with his work back home. Of 40 shows he had mounted, seven had been banned and many others had been rewritten or restaged. Said Lyubimov: "I am 65 years old, and I simply don't have the time to wait until these government officials finally arrive at an understanding of a culture that will be worthy...
Soviet Director Yuri Lyubimov makes a blazing U.S. debut with Crime and Punishment. -- Mary Tyler Moore shines in Sweet...