"[She] danced her first Swan Lake on her 15th birthday, … went on to be the first western ballerina to perform with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in 1957 and became director of the London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet) in 1968, rescuing the company from crisis." And she dealt with Rudolf Nureyev, as difficult a […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM on July 18, 2019