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...American Ballet Theatre's most successful season in years is Italy's Alessandra Ferri, 23, an ethereal, hugely gifted dramatic dancer. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, which has just finished its first North American tour in 22 years, is full of talent, but the great ovations have gone to Altynai Asylmuratova, 25, an exotic beauty blessed with a perfect line and the more elusive qualities of gentle lyricism and knockout sexual allure. Still to come is Sylvie Guillem, 21, of the Paris Opera Ballet, which arrives next month on its first U.S. visit since 1948. Guillem stands out with a sensational...
...company's talent, stronger among the women than the men. The troupe seems to relish exotic plumage. The Firebird production is a grandiose set-piece, reveling in the folk story instead of flattening it. It also underscores the fact that the Kirov's best ballerina is still Altynai Asylmuratova, 34. In personal beauty and musicality, she is exquisitely refined, but she dances with a boldness that is thrilling. From the moment she leaps onstage, there is no question that this supernatural bird will conquer the evil sorcerer. No mannerisms, no attempt to extract fire out of ice. Many ballerinas have...
...choreography, some of it by Marius Petipa, is strictly cut and paste; the plot went down with the ship. But Le Corsaire provides the occasion for some florid dancing, especially in the hands of bravura technicians like Tatyana Terekhova and Farukh Ruzimatov or a poet on point like Altynai Asylmuratova, the company's reigning ballerina...
...Kirov paid rich tribute to the choreographer who danced on its stage as a youngster. The set suggests the theater itself, its balconies aglow in mellow light. The marvelous, downy tutus use the colors of the Kirov curtain. When danced by Asylmuratova, one of the handful of great ballerinas today, a magical fusion of dance tradition and Balanchine's revolution occurs. She may lack the technical wizardry of City Ballet's Kyra Nichols or Merrill Ashley, but she is the most musical of dancers, delightedly bathing in the score, modestly using her bewitching personal beauty to enhance the glamour...
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