Word: chopiniana
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...current visit, the Kirov is offering three programs: an evening of Fokine ballets (Chopiniana, Scheherazade, The Firebird) and two full-length works, Swan Lake and Cinderella. The latter two have been staged by the Kirov's artistic director, Oleg Vinogradov, and it is here that the difficulty lies. In an effort to "modernize" the old fairy tales, to make them less bizarre, he has flattened the stories and made them, if anything, harder to follow...
...style is cherished as well. It may be that the classical style comes as readily to these Russians as Shakespeare's poetry does to English actors. They dance with an easy amplitude, buoyant lightness and total technical command. There is no empty reverence. To American eyes, the Kirov Chopiniana (called Les Sylphides here) is startling because it is performed seemingly in a sunlit field instead of in a cathedral at midnight. Every Kirov dancer and musician knows a common musical idiom as well. The orchestra takes blithe liberties with tempos-flying allegros, subaqueous adagios-that are a shock...
...other second-week offering was a calculated crowd rouser-a program of highlights that gave the company's stars a chance to display whatever muscles they had failed to flex earlier. There were a few quiet numbers-a beautifully danced version of Fokine's Les Sylphides (called Chopiniana by the Russians), an embarrassingly mawkish pantomime called A Blind Woman, which Prima Ballerina Ulanova almost managed to make acceptable. But most of the evening was given over to acrobatics: spinning, headlong leaps into the arms of supporting male dancers; a vaulting lift in which Ballerina Struchkova balanced light...
Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Alfred Cortot, piano ; orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli; Victor, 8 sides). Best recording to date of a romantic staple, by a prolific waxer of Chopiniana...
Snowflakes, Autumn Leaves, Pizzifcato, Warrior Dance, Flirtation, Anitra's Dance, Amarilla, Oriental Impressions, The Swan, Bacchanale, Chopiniana, Old Russian Folklore, California Poppy, Sleeping Beauty, Dances of Japan, A Hindoo Wedding, Krishna .and Rhada, Hungarian Rhapsody...