Do you know your entrechats from your fouettés? What Beyoncé learned from Betty Page? In a new weekly column looking at dance in detail, Luke Jennings takes a closer look at the dazzling film debut of a young Russian ballet dancerIn March 1958, although still a student at the Vaganova Academy in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), 18-year-old Alla Sizova made her debut with the Kirov Ballet, dancing the role of Queen of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AM on October 14, 2011