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PURELY PLISETSKAYA
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HOMMAGE A PLISETSKAYA -- At the Wang Center for the
Performing Arts, Sunday night.
Consider her curtain call, arguably the most exquisite aspect of
Maya Plisetskaya's performance at this gala in her honor, an event
that was also a fund-raiser for "Making Music Together." The
Bolshoi ballerina strolled across the front of the Wang Center
stage with the leisurely, regal manner of the more practiced
members of the British royal family. She made eye contact with
people who p...
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PURELY PLISETSKAYA
The Boston Globe
; HOMMAGE A PLISETSKAYA -- At the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Sunday night. Consider her curtain call, arguably the most exquisite aspect of Maya Plisetskaya's performance at this gala in her honor, an event that was also a fund-raiser for "Making Music Together." The Bolshoi ballerina
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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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CHOREOGRAPHY THE ONLY FLAW IN EXCITING BOLSHOI STAY
The Boston Globe
; No top-flight international ballet company had come to Boston since 1985, when American Ballet Theatre made its last visit here, and no such company had ever, to my knowledge, performed in Boston for longer than the two-week stints the old Ballet Russe used to do here. These facts alone made 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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Moscow Honors Bolshoi's 'True Queen'; Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya Will Mark 80th Birthday With Brief Performance
The Washington Post
; ... Quixote." "People are like roses," Plisetskaya said recently at a news conference to announce the week-long festival that the Bolshoi ... wrote Anatoly Korolev, a cultural commentator for the Russian news agency Ria-Novosti, in a tribute last week. "She was never afraid ...
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Toeing the Party Line
The Washington Post
; I, MAYA PLISETSKAYA By Maya Plisetskaya Translated by Antonina W. Bouis Yale University 386 pp. $35Aballet dancer strives to make her art look effortless, despite fatigue, pain or injuries. For Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet for much of the latter half of the past century,
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Honoring Russia's 'prima, prima' ballerina
International Herald Tribune
; ... to us by God.''At a standing-room-only news conference last week, Aleksandr Gafin ... of the most anticipated questions at the news conference in the affirmative.''Do I admit ... dreamed of something new,'' she said at the news conference. ''In my time it was impossible ...
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Maya's flowers
Pointe
; In this issue's installment of Bruce Marks' autobiography, A Dancer Out Of Time, the former Boston Ballet artistic director relives his encounters with Plisetskaya--a pas de deux of wills. I felt guilty and ashamed. Boston's local opera impresario, Sarah Caldwell, who could make you feel a lot of
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Maya Plisetskaya & The Truth of Dance; The Bolshoi Ballerina on Her Life and Her Art
The Washington Post
; Prima ballerina assoluta- the phrase suggests an imperious dancing goddess who truly lives only when she inhabits a rarefied realm of swans, sylphs and theatrical mayhem. Yet here sits Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet superstar whom many regard as the greatest ballerina of the 20th century,
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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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