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Program A Thursday, February 26, 1976 at 7:30pm Sunday, February 29, 1976 at 2:00pm

Le Lac des Cygnes

Music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky Staged by Trutti Gasparinetti Costumes by Anthony Bassae

Swept up into the magic realm of swans (and birds) this elegiac phantas- magoria of variations and ensembles in line and music is the signature work of the Company. The story of Odette, the beautiful girl turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer, and her mortal lover, Prince Siegfried, was not an unusual theme--the metamorphosis of women to birds and vice c . versa occurs frequently in Russian folklore--when Tchaikovsky first set the ballet in 1877 (unsuccessfully at the Bolshoi; what we know as is from the Petersburg revival a year after his death). The universal appeal of this ballet is perhaps due to the pathetic and mys- terious qualities of the heroine juxtaposed with the conventions of gla- Gleaming sterling silver, now the morous Russian ballet. meaningful fashion rage in jewelry...as Von Roth bart Urali Stepanopskii to him as to her. See our collection of Benno Aubrey Smythe-Wickes important little pieces...from pendants Prince Siegfried Alexis Lermontov on chains to big-cuff bracelets...to Odette, the Swan Queen Olga Tchikaboumskaya shine-up your days and nights together Cygnets Natasha Veceslova, Veronika- Malaise du Mer, Eugenia Repel- AT THE A&S NEAREST YOU skii, Zamarina Zamarkova, Tatyana Poupeeskaya The place to come... for low-cost, 1. Go For Barocco high-quality Music by J. S. Bach Choreography by Peter Anastos family protection! Costumes by Antony Bassae

Stylistic heir to Petipa's middle-blue period, this ballet has been cos- tumed to strip away the stark coolness and choreosymphonic delineation The that has heretofore prevented a true reading of the work. First Movement (Moderato) Williamsburgh Suzina LaFuzziovitch, Olga Tchikaboumskaya Savings Veronika-Malaise du Mer, Zamarina Zamarkova Second Movement (Adagio) Bank Suzina LaFuzziovitch and Olga Tchikaboumskaya Incorporated 1851 Third Movement (Allegro) Brooklyn Offices: All

1 Hanson Place at Flathush Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11243 Broadway at Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y 11211 Great Ladies of the Dance 86th St. and 23rd Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11214 New Lots and Pennsylvania Ayes., Brooklyn N.Y. 11207 An ongoing series exploring the constellation of ladies who have made dance great. Nassau Offices: Pieriniana Hempstead Turnpike at Center Lane, Levittown. N.Y. 11756 Music by Adolphe Adam 682 Dogwood Ave., Franklin Square, N.Y. 11010 Choreography by Pavel Gerdt Costume by Natch Taylor Queens Offices: Danced by Natasha Veceslova and 63rd Drive at Saunders St., Rego Park, N.Y. 11374 Olga Tchikaboumskaya 136-65 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, N.Y. 11354 (en travesti) 107-15 Continental Ave.. Forest Hills N.Y. 11375 Until Kschessinskaya proved the true worth of native Russian talent the Imperial Ballet of Petersburg automatically awarded the ballerina role of every important production to the current visiting Italian (an Manhattan Offices: xenophilic custom still practiced by certain companies today). The 74 Wall St. at Pearl St. New York, N.Y. 10005 Milanese Pierina Legnani created such parts as Odette-Odile and Ray- 345 East 86th St., New York, N.Y. 10028 monda- -roles now considered quintessentially Russian but designed on her brittle, rectilinear style. We offer this fragment, perhaps from her Farewell Gala in 1901 when she danced Camergo with Sergei Legat.

Loie Flutter Inquire Music by Amilcare Ponchielli about Choreography by Loie Fuller Danced by Suzina LaFuzziovitch Savings Bank La Loie, as she was known in France, was the headmistress of the cele- brated school of scarf-waving, veil-tossing, shroud-dragging dance 'f that trapped many people who should have known better, according to Agnes.

Life Insurance Das Roslein Wehrte Sich at any office Music by Richard Wagner Choreography by Isadora Duncan without Danced by Olga Tchikaboumskaya ". . . After lunch, Frau Wagner took my arm and we walked out into the garden around the tomb of the Master . . . Frau Cosima conversed in tones of sweet melancholy and mystic hope ... I had indeed forgotten obligation! Athena's temple .. ." Isadora Duncan Program B Great Ladies of the Dance continued . . . Friday, February 27, 1976 at 8:00pm Phaedra/Monotonous no. 1148 Saturday, February 28, 1976 at 8:00pm

Music by AC/DC Walpurgis Nacht Choreography by Shawn Avrea Costume and Decor by Lo-Fat-Diet Music by Charles Gounod

Danced by Eugenia Rapelskii Choreography by Peter Anastos - Costumes by Natch Taylor . From grand concert stages to humble lofts the artist has asked the ques- tions que vivre, que l'amour, que l'art. Princess Repelskii seeks the answers in the style of that great lady whose name elicits knowing nods and back-spasms. ti o

Don Quixote

Music by Choreography by Peter Anastos Costumes by Antony Bassae

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In the fourth act of Gounod's Faust, Mephistopheles leads the hero to a witch's revel on Harz Mountain where he reveals all the queens and courtesans of ages past. Faust's senses are wildly kindled until he is 1 saved by a vision of the chaste and pure Marguerite. Mephistopheles Urallii Stepanopskii Faust Natasha Veceslova (en travesti) Don Quixote, one of the greatest successes of , premiered Helen of Troy Eugenia Repelskii at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1869. It is what the Russians fondly Penelope, her Spartan cousin Veronika-Malaise du Mer call a "robust comedy," having nothing to do with the Cervantes novel, but filled with lively Spanish dances, then the rage in Moscow ballet. Cleopatra Olga Tchikaboumskaya Les Ballets Trockadero offers the only version of this Russian classic in Scheherezade Zamarina Zamarkova America. Medea Suzina LaFuzziovitch Salome Nadia Rombova Mercedes Natasha Veceslova Marguerite Heubetscha Boutskaya Frasquita Olga Tchikaboumskaya Don Basilio Alexis Lermontov Kitri, a local ballerina Zamarina Zamarkova The Dryad Fairy Eugenia Repelskii Perverbial Townsfolk Veronika-Malaise du Mer, Nadia Rombova, Pas de Quatre Uralli Stepanopskii Music by Staged by Trutti Gasparinetti Costumes by Antony Bassae A rich Sunday: It was the idea of Mr. Benjamin Lumley, manager of Her Majesty's Theatre in London, to stage a grand divertissement bringing together the four greatest ballerinas of the Romantic Age. Through the most delicate diplomacy he managed to call the celebrated ladies to London, Oriental rugs, Baklava, not however without several "artistic misunderstandings." One of these was the choice of who was to receive the favored last variation--each Turkish coffee, one certain of her own supremacy. Mr. Lumley settled the matter by tactfully offering it to the oldest among them. It is said that Madame Taglioni stood quite still while the younger girls demurely stepped back. Brooklyn Academyof Music The Gala Divertissement finally took place on 26 June, 1845. The cho- To make your Sunday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music even richer, stop by reography had been fashioned by Jules Perrot--one English wag likened the Kalfaian Oriental Rug Gallery located just two short blocks away from the his task to that of training lions and tigers to waltz in a cage--the man Academy. At Kalfaian, you'll find one of the most renowned collections of responsible for most of Carlotta Grisi'spas in Giselle (Paris Opera, 1841). Oriental rugs in the New York area, beautifully displayed for leisurely inspection. M. Perrot sought to exploit the signature qualities of each danseuse- While there, savor Turkish coffee and Baklava as you browse amid hundreds of Grahn's vivaciousness, Grisi's lyrical expressiveness, Cerrito's coquetry hand-crafted Oriental masterpieces. and Taglioni's ethereal mystery. The original Pas de Quatre was only It's an enriching way to spend your day. danced 4 times (Queen Victoria and Prince Albert attended the third performance), but served as a model for the ritualistic celebrations of academic dance we now know as "abstract" ballet-without apology, W11,1821, 6 Son I as Sex-01007 autonomous and absolute. It survives today one of the more charming D. and silly evocations of Romantic Ballet. Since 1907, Oriental Rugs at Warehouse prices. 475 Atlantic Avenue Lucille Grahn Natasha Veceslova (Between 3rd Avenue and Nevins Street in Boerum Hill) Carlotta Grisi Zamarina Zamarkova Sunday, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Weekdays 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. (including Saturday) Fanny Cerrito Suzina LaFuzziovitch TR 5-2222 Marie Taglioni Olga Tchikaboumskaya Ii

The Forgiven

Music by Moondog Choreography by Natch Taylor _Fr] Costumes by Natch Taylor 11$ He was unable to believe that for such an act he would be forgiven and then loved. eamperclown The Boy Natasha Veceslova (en travesti) We're fast Elm The Girl Suzina LaFuzziovitch becoming a The Stranger Fjord Tord tradition. Enjoy fine food & drink in the delightful atmosphere of our 30's bar & restaurant The Dance of Liberation of the American People in Lunch, Tuesday Saturday Homage to Isadora Duncan, the Greatest American 1. Patriot Since Betsy Ross, Sacagawea and Barbara Brunch, Sundays 12 to 3 Fritchie Dinner Tuesday-Sunday 5 to midnight Closed Mondays Music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky Choreography by Olga Plushinskaya 847 Union Street, Costume by George Fudacko off 7th Avenue in Park Slope Flag by Andrew Roman I (212) 638 0860 Danced by Olga Plushinskaya

Suzina LaFuzziovitch, famed country and western ballerina, formerly prima ballerina of the Grand Ole Opry, recently defected from that company when they moved to their new home in Nashville. The rift was caused by their refusal to stage the ballet with which her name has become synonymous, / Never Promised You a Rose Adagio. Olga Tchikaboumskaya, born near the volcano at Komtchatka, achieved ballerina status despite her Mongol Circus heritage. to fully explore the Music by J. S. Bach She went on to become the first ballerina Formerly of the Choreography by Peter Anastos possibilities of muk-luks in pointe technique. defection centered on Costumes by Antony Bassae Tundra Opera Ballet, Olga's spectacular her clever disguise as a toe-shoe, shipped out for export by a Leningrad cobbler. heir to Petipa's middle-blue period, this ballet has been cos- Stylistic us her tumed to strip away the stark coolness and choreosymphonic delineation Natasha Veceslova, nee Nancy Vreems, comes to from that has heretofore prevented a true reading of the work. native Glasgow, where she joined the Opera Ballet at 16 and was made a principal dancer 4 months later. She distinguished First Movement (Moderato) herself in such pivotal roles as "friends" to Giselle, Swanilda, Suzina LaFuzziovitch, Olga Tchikaboumskaya Aurora and Juliet. Veronika-Malaise du Mer, Zamarina Zamarkova Zamarina Zamarkova's frail, spiritual qualities have caused this elfin charmer to be likened to a lemon souflge poised delicately Second Movement (Adagio) on the brink of total collapse. Her adorably over- stretched belies their actual age. Suzina LaFuzziovitch and Olga Tchikaboumskaya tendons exude a childlike sweetness that gi Eugenia Repelskii, emigree Princess of a formerly famous Third Movement (Allegro) middle-European country, comes to the ballet stage after her All hair-raising escape from the successful (but not terribly tasteful) overthrow of her country's formerly glamourous government. She made a counter-revolutionary figure of herself when she was arrested for single handedly storming the state museum, where her fabulous collection of crown jewels was being in- sensitively displayed in the same case as a machine gun! The resilient Princess Repelskii is currently the proprietress of The America's only Mail-Order course in classical ballet. Veronika-Malaise du Mer, whose frothy exhuberance epitomizes veryfamous restaurant a the French school of dance has been called by many European critics, le belle bon marche de Tuileries. Mlle du Mer began 1 I, , ' her career as a doorstop at the Moulin Rouge but rose slowly in on her demi-pointes from les bidonvilles de Paris to the status In 1879 Brooklyn was a separate city and we began a of &oils. New York dining tradition The distinction of the food. the unhurried service and the elegant atmosphere attracted patrons Alexis Ivanovitch Lermontov was discovered asleep in the cor- wide a a nostalgic from far and Now we are Landmark. ner of an obscure ballet studio in Paris. Coming to America, he example of a golden era in New York's history. Today. as in the past our patrons arrive with anticipation and formed a company from some of the sleepers in his own obscure leave warm and happy Its our claim to fame ballet studio. It is curious that Mr. Lermontov and Suzina La- Fuzziovitch are never seen together. These are just two fascina- Brooklyn s Landmark Seafood and Steak House (Est 1879) ting pieces of the puzzle that is the enigmatic Alexis Lermontov. GAGE& Urali Stepanopskii, the demi-, semi-, hemi-character dancer is 372 Fulton Street Inc Boro Hall) 875 5181. Lunch and Dinner except Sunday. known chiefly his to do more than 2 kazatkis. Amex, Diners & Master Charge. for inability Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo LET US SOLVE YOUR HOME PROBLEMS Directors Natch Taylor and Peter Anastos Bonded Agency for Companions General Manager Eugene McDougle Male & Female Nurses Lighting and Baby Nurses Technical Director Druth Mc Clure N Y Registered Aides NY Licensed Practicals & Homemakers Balletmistress Elenifa Lick lider 4 Stylistic Guru Marius Petipa

. Program Peter Anastos call any hour Shoes by Anello & Davide and Capezio open Costumes executed in the workshops of Les Ballets Trockadero Star 24 hours a day The Dancers are Peter Anastos, Shawn Avrea, Quintin de Chalfont, Michael seven Haimsohn, J. John Martin, Registry days a week Clinton W. Smith, Joseph Stephen, Natch Taylor, and Zamie Zamor for DAY NIGHT BAM gratefully acknowledges the Booth Ferris Foundation and the City SLEEP-IN of New York for their contributions towards the major renovation of Nurses established 1938 the Playhouse and GAF Corporation for their contribution of acoustical tile flooring. 511 Avenue F, Brooklyn, N Y 11218 The new carpeting in the Opera House was made possible by a generous Inc. gift from the Friends of BAM. MELANIE STARR GE 8-0600 RENEE TAUBENBLATT (Between Ocean Parkway & East 5th Street)

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