Word: nureyev
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...Paul Morrissey, "She has fiendish beauty." Then he described Monique's role. "She gets loved to death. Monique makes love to the monster, and he embraces her so passionately that he crushes her backbone. It's all in 3-D." Dimensions intact, Monique turned up at Rudolf Nureyev's opening night with the National Ballet Company of Canada in Manhattan last week on the arm of Warhol. Hugging them both, but not enough to crush their backbones, she declared, "I love Rudolf," then added, "I love Andy too, but in a different...
With his dance-tired feet stuffed into a pair of worn and obviously comfortable shoes, Rudolf Nureyev-perhaps the world's greatest danseur noble -accepted the annual Dance Magazine award in Manhattan. His speech was hardly audible, a sentence thanking the people who had helped him since he fled the U.S.S.R. During those twelve years in the West, Rudolf has performed mostly with the Royal Ballet, and is now touring with the National Ballet of Canada. Except for old friends like Dancer Erik Bruhn and Actress Monique Van Vooren, his life is a solo...
...Nureyev's choreography differs chiefly in its shift of emphasis from princess to prince. Other first-class productions that have been performed in Europe for the past 50 years have hinged on Princess Aurora while Prince Florimund never danced at all. In this production Nureyev's prince has half a dozen solos. They are uniformly pleasant-if unaccountably confined to traditional danse d'école figures and Nureyev executes them to glacéed perfection...
More important than his choreography is the effect of Nureyev's presence among the well-schooled but less experienced dancers of the young troupe (founded in 1951). Their performance is neat and crisp until Nureyev steps onstage. The intensity mounts, and the dancing, which had previously been clean-cut, becomes dazzling...
...visual impact of Nureyev's Beauty is staggering. Yet after a while the memory of the dancing blurs, overwhelmed by the lavish costumes and staging. As a dance vehicle, it is less than successful for an audience nurtured on modern dance; as a theater piece it is a triumph...