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Vicx

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  1. Diana Vishneva with Marcelo Gomes. Magnificent, soul-stirring connection. He mastered several sequences of long, slow turns, every inch of legs and body in elegantly held tension. At the "party", her heart-crushing coldness as she repeatedly looked directly at and through him, then blankly turned away. She really is a whore, I thought. Interesting suggestion of rape by the jailer while he knelt and dragged her leg underneath one thigh to just momentarily make that horrible connection. In the swamp, their final series of three death-defying lifts -- Marcelo tossing her into frightenly high, complicated turns -- that peaked with her death midair. What a face! What a death! Wow. I've never seen such a dangerously athletic, trusting partnership in dance. I flew out from San Francisco just to see this performance. I bow to you, Vaganova Ballet Academy, for the privilege of seeing your dancers: Nureyev, Makarova, and Vishneva.
  2. I'm new to Ballet Alert and so appreciate the insightful commentary. Someone said that our first Romeo and Juliet will always be our first love. Mine was on film with Nureyev and Fonteyn. While living in Vienna in the '60s I travelled to a small town in Germany to see the Kirov. Included in the festival was R&J with Marcia Haydee and Richard Cragun. Who knew? I was just a girl who liked ballet. Loyal as I was to Nureyev and Fonteyn, and knowing nothing of the Stuttgart company, I sat back with a "show me" attitude. My, oh my, did they ever. I could feel myself leaning forward inch-by-inch until I literally hung over the railing, barely breathing with joy until the final tearful moment. Two San Francisco Ballet versions later, Romeo and Juliet still breaks my heart open and gives my spirit reason to live.
  3. I've fallen in love again with the Marinsky after seeing Swan Lake with Kondaurova twice in Berkeley recently. The videos and discussion threads on Ballet Alert are wonderful. Thank you!
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