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Where the Kirov differs. (Kirov Ballet of Leningrad)
The New Leader
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August 11, 1986|
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WHERE THE KIROV DIFFERS
FOR THOSE OF us who had never seen Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, but had pieced together an ideal from the glimpses afforded by books and films, and from the standard-shattering performances of Kirov defectors Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, its recent American tour promised an epiphany at the very least. Founded in 1783 by Catherine II as Russia's Imperial Ballet Company, it was the cradle of the classical dance we know today as well as of the neoclassicism of George Balanchine, who elaborated the lessons he learned at the ...
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