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...medals around the necks of the Carrutherses. For the first time in memory, or at least since the Soviets started competing in Winter Games, in 1956, there was no commanding partnership in pairs skating. The long reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine Baess and Tassilo Thierbach. Compared with the liturgical certainty...
Indeed, the only sure bet at the World Championships was the triumph of the Soviet duo. Within seconds after Vorobieva and Lisovski took the ice, their claim was clear to the legacy of Irina Rodnina and her two successive partners, Alexei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, as well as that of Ljudmila and Oleg Protopopov. The liquid balletic expressiveness, the finesse and harmony that is the hallmark of Russian pairs skating has been handed down intact to the latest heirs. Vorobieva and Lisovski took a comfortable lead after the short program, two minutes of compulsory jumps and lifts. Even a near...
...with good reason. Skating in synchronous movements and precise combinations, they mesh like the gears in a Swiss watch. Beyond form, they skate to their music with exquisite choreography and complete the most pyrotechnic maneuvers with consummate grace. They started skating together when Rodnina's original partner, Alexsei Ulanov, left her to marry another skater. Though married themselves, Rodnina and Zaitsev do not seem to be an emotional pairing off the ice: he is reserved and intellectual, she highly emotional...
...closing, let me forewarn balletomaines that though Maya Plisetskaya, second only to Ulanov in the Bolshoi Ballet, does make an appearance, it is a very short one. For 75 seconds, she dances through a droopily choreographed pastiche of ballet and burlesque. She does not, for quite understandable reasons, seem at all interested in the shoddy proceedings...
...Plisetskaya (TIME, May 4). But Ulanova is the most revered Russian dancer (perhaps the most revered Russian artist in any field), and was even before she moved to the Bolshoi Company in 1944. Born in St. Petersburg in 1910, she was introduced to the dance early: her father, Sergei Ulanov, was a member of the corps at the famed Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theater, and her mother, Maria Romanova, a Mariinsky soloist and teacher at the St. Petersburg Ballet School. At first Galina had no desire to dance, and she recalls "crying bitterly with fear" when she was first taken...