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BALLETS TO SHOWCASE DRAMATIC TALENTS PLISETSKAYA MAY BE SURPRISING TO US AUDIENCES
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Russian dance has periodically burst upon an astonished West,
ever since Diaghilev's Ballets Russes presented the revolutionary
choreography of Fokine, along with the virtuoso dancing of Pavlova,
Nijinsky and Karsavina, in Paris in 1909.
If videotapes I watched last week of two ballets by the
legendary Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya are any indication,
the Russians may well surprise us once again, when Sarah Caldwell's
cross-cultural festival "Making Music Together" presents the
A...
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BALLETS TO SHOWCASE DRAMATIC TALENTS PLISETSKAYA MAY BE SURPRISING TO US AUDIENCES
The Boston Globe
; Russian dance has periodically burst upon an astonished West, ever since Diaghilev's Ballets Russes presented the revolutionary choreography of Fokine, along with the virtuoso dancing of Pavlova, Nijinsky and Karsavina, in Paris in 1909. If videotapes I watched last week of two ballets by the
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THE BOLSHOI BACKSTAGE
The Boston Globe
; Maya Plisetskaya flicked her leg up directly in front of her face and, using those famous flashing eyes, glared at her foot, commanding it to stay airborne. It did. And the legendary ballerina maintained a pose of chiseled perfection for several long seconds. It seems safe to say that no other
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Glasnost and Glitter on the Charles; Baryshnikov Lends Luster to a Gala Tribute at the U.S.-Soviet Exchange Festival
The Washington Post
; "An important element in the U.S.-Soviet relationship," opined Secretary of State George P. Shultz. "The biggest debacle in Boston's cultural history," predicted a local newspaper, the Boston Phoenix. New-fashioned Soviet glasnost came face to face with old-fashioned Yankee skepticism on the banks
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BOLSHOI'S POWERFUL 'ANNA KARENINA'
The Boston Globe
; THE BOLSHOI BALLET -- In "Anna Karenina." Based on Tolstoy's novel, with a libretto by B. Lvov-Anokhin. Choreography by Maya Plisetskaya, Natalia Rizhenko, and Victor Smirnov-Golovanov. Music by Rodion Shchedrin. Decor by Valery Levantal. Lighting by Oleg Kopin. At the Wang Center for the
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'Anna'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; 'Anna' BRIEFING Sunday, April 8, 2001 Long story short Literally, "Anna Karenina" is not light reading, weighing in at around 900 pages. Figuratively, the story speeds along. Cliffs Notes can tell "Anna Karenina" in three pages -- 35 chapters alone are dispatched in two paragraphs, thank you very
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'Anna Karenina' a tale always in fashion
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; `Anna Karenina' a tale always in fashion By CAROL DEPTOLLA of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, April 8, 2001 We haven't seen this much of Anna Karenina since she was on the party circuit in 1870s Russia. "Anna Karenina," Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece, is popping up like cleavage at a 19th-century
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(book reviews)
Journal of European Studies
; A woman commits adultery; partly in consequence, she dies; virtue's reward is family happiness. Here endeth the lesson, and the plot-summary of scores of nineteenth-century realist novels. Amy Mandelker, while accepting the appropriateness of this context (as intertext), nevertheless argues that
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Sex, sex and more sex, and very little sense Channel 4's `Anna Karenina' has lost the plot, says Deborah Orr
The Independent - London
; Bearing in mind that the film-makers' intention was to "update" Anna Karenina, Channel 4's marketing department certainly plumped for a curiously retrograde advertising line. Commanded by the publicity to watch Channel 4's series with a view to weighing up whether Anna Karenina is a "tragic
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IN PBS'S EMBRACE, UPDATED `ANNA KARENINA' REMAINS PURE.(Television)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; LIKE THE PRICE of western electricity these days, the price of happiness depends a lot on how much one has in one's reservoir, and how quickly one uses it up. Anna Karenina, the tragic figure in one of the great pieces of Western literature, would seem to have plenty. Comfortable and cared for, she
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MOVIE OF 'ANNA KARENINA' A REAL MISTAKE.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Robert Denerstein, Scripps Howard News Service The other day I was in a bookstore leafing through Russian novels I'd like to read again. Certainly ''Crime and Punishment ...
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