Word: nureyev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America and Asia, but they have yet to develop a major choreographer of their own or a ballerina of international repute. Thus when the company finally got up the courage to assault the U.S. for a ten-week tour, Co-Directors Peggy van Praagh and Robert Helpmann cajoled Rudi Nureyev into appearing as guest artist in his own staging of Don Quixote; they also imported New Zealand-born Lucette Aldous of Britain's Royal Ballet to dance the heroine...
...result was a streamlined reproduction of the Leningrad-Kirov Don Quixote that Nureyev had learned as a young dancer. The old knight, played by Helpmann himself, tottered through a swirl of swinging Spanish skirts, roistering toreadors and intricate incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea. The Don thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay...
...that Natalia Makarova was dancing Giselle with an American company at all. Only four months ago she was a leading ballerina in Leningrad's famed Kirov Ballet, delighting audiences during the company's guest appearance in London. Then, suddenly, she became the most spectacular cultural defector since Nureyev 91 years ago. In seniority, anyway, she outranked him-making top money as an established star, with an apartment of her own and a servant. But unlike Nureyev, she had chosen to come to the U.S. and join an American company precisely to do the adventurous ballets on which...
...says vaguely, the next a young Soviet documentary-film director, whom she divorced shortly before her defection and refuses to name because, she claims, it may damage his career. She found plenty of helpful friends among dancers in the West. Dame Margot Fonteyn gave her counsel and comfort. Nureyev broke into a year of solid bookings to do a special TV film with her for a BBC Christmas show. She was drawn to the American Ballet Theatre in part because its varied repertoire includes ballets by Anthony Tudor (Pillar of Fire) and Jerome Robbins (Les Noces), as well as classics...
...huddle, or penalty. There is the disciplined machinery of its teamwork: eleven men performing eleven separate actions in pursuit of a common goal-to move the ball forward. There is the balletic grace of a halfback on the open field, pirouetting from tackles with the practiced ease of Nureyev spinning through a double tour en l'air, or the split-second timing of a wide receiver and a quarterback on a 50-yd. pass completion...