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...NUREYEV by Clive Barnes Helene Obolensky; 240 pages...
Feline, flamboyant and faintly Oriental, Rudolf Nureyev has leaped across the stages of U.S. and European theaters for more than 20 years, capturing larger audiences for ballet than any other dancer in history...
...young god." He is blond, handsome and ruggedly virile, with the physique of a football tight end (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.). His dancing is strong and clear, the picture of disciplined power and instinctive authority. Yet unlike his great contemporaries Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev, Martins is not a magnet for the media. His impact has been almost entirely through his role as leading male dancer with the New York City Ballet, a company where the choreography rather than the performer is designed to star...
...other company in this century has produced talent as profligately as the Kirov, and certainly no foreign company has had so strong an influence on American dance. Pavlova, whose ceaseless touring virtually introduced ballet to the U.S.; Balanchine, creator of many of this century's choreographic masterpieces; Nureyev and Makarova, who set new standards for classical style; Baryshnikov, who is probably the greatest male dancer since Nijinsky and is in the process of turning the American Ballet Theater into a major classical ensemble-all these have emerged from the Kirov...
...company considerable mystique, but it is not the only reason why American ballet lovers are juggling airline deals to get to Paris. It is very difficult to see the Kirov; the troupe tours less than the rival Bolshoi, even in the U.S.S.R. Since it has lost three superstars (Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov) in 20 years, the company has been kept home at times for security reasons (the last U.S. tour was in 1964). After Baryshnikov's departure, it was rumored that the Kirov had deteriorated and that morale was low. Those difficulties, if they existed, seem, on the basis...