Nina Ananiashvili: Dancing to serve her country
This is not the first time that the internationally renowned ballerina Nina Ananiashvili has found herself in a tricky position. And as usual, her extraordinary artistry is part of the solution. The former Bolshoi Star, a long-limbed firecracker with glamorous eyes, has danced her way out of corners before. Back in the late 1980s, after another dancer's defection led the paranoid bureaucracy of the Bolshoi Ballet to …