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Article: A legacy leaps at the Colon Theater
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- Americas
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Jul/Aug 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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FOR DECADES AGENTINA'S PREMIER THEATER HAS HOUSED A RESIDENT BALLET INSTITUTE THAT HAS SHAPED SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST ACCLAIMED DANCERS
One Sunday afternoon in December
1972, Olga Ferri serenely served up a spectacular in Beunos Airesis steadly Colon Theater. She was dancing Gisellie, as she had many times since 1958, when Alicia Alonso, perhaps the greatest Giselle of all, declared her ripe for the part. The first Argentine ever to interpret that draining litmus test, Ferri was, as always, carefree and lighting quick in the first act, a poetic vision of flowing arabesques in the second and, this time, she carried the production. Just the year before, the upper ranks of the Ballet del ...