ballerina
Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine: A passionate love letter re-openedSaturday, 22 July 2006
"It was more than just 'I love you'," Suzanne Farrell, America's nonpareil ballerina, the love and inspiration of 20th-century ballet's greatest choreographer, is telling me at breakfast in a little bar in Lee, Massachusetts. "When people ask me to... Read more... |
Ulyana Lopatkina: The beanpole who became the soul of RussiaSaturday, 09 July 2005
If you tell a tall, whisper-slim young woman of 31 that she has been described as "the soul of Russia", it is understandable that she looks startled. Two huge, smoke-grey eyes cast a doubtful glance at me, and she murmurs in Russian. Her translator... Read more... |
Manon: Shock that turned to respectSaturday, 04 July 1998
One of the first, scathing reviews of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Manon in 1974 nailed it exactly: "It is an appalling waste of lovely Antoinette Sibley who, as Manon, is reduced to a nasty little diamond-digger." In that sentence all the prevailing... Read more... |
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