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Article: Where the Kirov differs. (Kirov Ballet of Leningrad)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- August 11, 1986
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1986 American Labor Conference on International Affairs. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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 Imperial Theater School into the lean and mean American style we associate with the New York City ...
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Transcript: Kirov Ballet's Comeback
NPR Morning Edition;
November 10, 1998 ;
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... ... 00-0000 BOB EDWARDS, HOST: The Kirov Ballet is one of Russia's cultural pillars ... best. ULYANA LAPATKINA, BALLERINA, KIROV BALLET (THROUGH INTERPRETER): I guess I ... NINA KIRGAPKINA, BALLET MASTER, KIROV BALLET (THROUGH INTERPRETER): Before it ...
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