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A love affair: the new-look Kirov has taken Balanchine's new wine but decanted it into their old Russian bottles.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A love affair: the new-look Kirov has taken Balanchine's new wine but decanted it into their old Russian bottles.(attitudes)(Kirov Ballet Company)

Article Excerpt
America's love affair--well, actually it was the West's love affair--with St. Petersburg's Kirov Ballet started in 1961. The company was on a three-city tour that started in Paris--where it lost in transit a dancer called Rudolf Nureyev--continued to London, and ended in New York.

It was an astonishing company. Under the artistic directorship of Konstantin Sergeyev and his wife Natalia Dudinskaya, it contained the great Irina Kolpakova--one of the finest Auroras of the 20th century--Vladilen Semenov, Alla Osipenko, and Inna Zubkovskaya. There were the younger stars Alla Sizova, Natalia Makarova, Yuri Soloviev (in his way as remarkable as Nureyev), and Oleg Sokolov, as well as such character dancers as Anatoly Gridin and Alexander Livshitz.

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