One week after news breaks of the historic, century-old precedent-breaking reversal of fortune, a shocker, that the Bolshoi Theatre had picked off the bravura-best of our ballet talent, David Hallberg, in a good old-fashioned talent steal ..comes American Ballet Theater’s powerful repost. They will go teach the Russians how to teach ballet. [...]



eisenstadt,
gered mankowitz, photog, 1967





“the red danube” (1949)


