Article: Curtain up.(Natalia Osipova)

When great Russian dancers arrive in the West, we tend to swoon over them. There was Nureyev in 1961, Makarova in 1970, and Baryshnikov in 1974. For me it happened in 1962 when the Bolshoi came to the old Met and hired American teenagers to perform in their larger pieces. There I was, in a parade scene of Leonid Yacobson's Spartacus, pointing and laughing at poor Phrygia, played by Maya Plisetskaya. Seeing her beauty and power from a few feet away, I can only tell you that pointing and laughing was not what I felt like doing. I wanted to soak up every little move. Watching her warm up, watching her blaze through her choreography onstage, I was hooked. I also fell in love ...

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