Ballet Attire

An Encounter With the Ballet of Bolshoi
I as much of that read my items can muster am a fan of fantastic opera although in all sincerity that I cannot claim to be a fascinated equal one ballet, nevertheless this should not be interpreted that I do not take the joy of him. Maybe it this is because my tastes lean themselves more to the passion of the singers and the drama in the opera rather then the grace of the dancer of ballet. What never the reason that I must claim to be a bigger fan of opera then fan of ballet but in all truth I am ballet lover nevertheless I the not a did step become until I to Santiago, Chile met the members of the ballet of Bolshoi. This was a time I never will forget as it did to see me the whole grace of the ballet nevertheless before this encounter with the Bolshoi I had seen that the execute to Moscow and maybe it this is there that I was introduced to the ballet. My decision to visit the Soviet Union came during the fall of 1988. The it was the perestroika time, the transparencies and Michael Gorbachov, the new leader of the Soviet Union that a lot of Americans had taken an affection to as they could see a certain honesty in him. I for my party cannot claim that my desires to visit the Soviet Union was influence some manner by Gorbachov as the true reason for my trip was based on my to want to travel the world, to the research of all these cities and places I had read of in my vast readings of history. Of course this was also at once in my life when I amused dreams of becomes a professional photographer and had it at the spirit to take photographs of Leningrad (called beforehand Petrograd, soon Pedtersbourg of Saint) and Moscow. These cities seemed the ideal to this effect, the two architectures ayante that was so various New York and the history sensation would be huge. Apreds all these were two cities that had been almost to the center of Second World War and the Russian revolutions of 1917. The first one of which reversed Nicholas II while the second in the month of October (although the calendar of Orthodox Russian marks this day as having been in the month of November) put the Bolsheviks in the strength. I had wanted to visit even the Soviet Union before but the question had not been so simple as I would have wanted it. First of all because the Soviet Union was a corporation closed I needed an aimed; that this was not a disturbance as I had already visited a lot of other Communist countries as Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the DDR, and Yugoslavia. These countries me exacting also as an American to have an aimed. I can add even how there was a time in 1987 in which these I as an American was demanded to have an aimed to enter France as opposed to be given an automatically on the entry as was the case with most of the European countries. The Soviet union nevertheless was different, even other Communist countries that demanded me only to go to their embassy or to their consulate, naturally with my passport, two photographs and the money to pay the aimed. The Soviet union demanded me not only it already to have mentioned but a paid hotel in advance where I would remain, that basically meant that I or would have the reserve a hotel in the cities that I wanted to go to before to leave New York or continuous which ordinarily is referred to as a "visits guided". I not as much of by my own choice took the second option to continue the guided visit even if in all truth that I would have preferred to go alone. The it was with the intension of expenditures of Christmas and the day of the New Year in the Soviet Union that I reserved myself at first month of November on a turn that would include Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, in this order. The it was while to visit these cities in the Soviet Union that I observed a lot of things, certain of which one these were even strange or at least in my opinion for a Communist country (having visited me already several) for example, in the Soviet Union there were stores that only accepted the strong change (this direction of any change that could be converted out Forbids to the Soviet citizens. Yes, the passports were verified on the enter into to the stores. The it was that does not store as this did not exist of in Poland or other Communist countries I but in contrast to had visited the Soviet Union in these countries does not import that could buy that they wished so long as they had the just type of change, in the this of Soviet Union was a case of Soviet ones even is not allowed entering the stores,. Naturally just as there were stores in which these only the foreigners as could enter me, there were also stores in that the foreigners were forbidden of as only Soviet could enter of the and again the passports or the documents were verified. I recall even how on an occasion, someone I met wondered me to buy it something in the store for the foreigners only. The Soviet union had also other factors that it did different of any one of the Communist countries as I had already visited for example again only guests of hotels were allowed entering as a check was established to the entry where the one was obliged to show a hotel card. This nevertheless did not present if a good party of a problem for me or for a lot of Soviet (I them refers themselves as as I cannot claim to have known quite frankly that was Russian or of one of the a lot of republics that formed the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) that managed to enter to the hotel despite is not invited of. Where the card demanded to enter the hotel was not a problem the Fact that I was demanded all pay in the strong change was nevertheless then lightly annoying more as these prices higher facts then they would have been had I was allowed buying the drinks or other such niceties in the Rubble, that I could obtain a lot more of on the black market. This nevertheless was of not to be as the hotels wanted the strong change not only for the cost of the piece but same for which one bought in them, this is by opposition To Polish hotels were it was demanded a pay only the piece in the strong change. The it was to Moscow that I remained in a hotel called "Cosmos" that I could add was the most exclusive one to the time, although in all truth its norms were lower then those than I had known in the west. I arrived to the hotel the 24th December and on my second day of is at Moscow after having having spent the first one two tourisms; I had what could be called my first experience in the Soviet Union. Two young men that must have been of my age of time in time (am for me 21) banged on the hotel piece that I divided with one of the members of my group of turn. The it was in the business of another member of my turn that these two young men came to ask if my friend of room and I cared for to barter the commerce. First or my friend of room or I knew that these two men had at the spirit and are in a country that we knew in order not to to be the democracy; my friend of American room, of which the name escapes completely me and I was lightly timid. The it was one of these two young men that asked us if we had blue John or does not import what cared for us to exchange as the American cigarettes or basically does not import what. I for my party felt that I had nothing that would not be worth their while as all I had been my cameras (that I was not ready to exchange for does not import what), some cigarette piles (am me smoker to the time), the clothing that I had brought with me (that included a pair of blue gray John this speaking frankly I was even They were in) and my cassettes that included some pop music. It did not take a long time with these two men and all those of my group of turn that had come to take a market; for the piece that I divided with a professor of history of Phoenix to become a national black market or international. The blue John was exchanged for the hats of Russian fur, the caviar (this is a French word as the Russian word is "ikra") and the other Russian delicacies. It was inspired by the manner these two Russians more or less I think than they did apparently to take almost any and all we had than I decided to show to them the old gray John than I had bought on a year ago to London. A lot of to my close one to shock they accepted taking them for a black hat of fur although given they were old they asked me to add something again more than I did in the form of an a pile of Marlboro than they accepted but nevertheless my to have the guilty sensations on the old John obliged me to add a band by the British band. During these transactions; I noticed how the people of two countries and the methods of different lives could exchange and could do the matters and although the English spoken by these two sirs was this exactly perfect step that was it understandable, doing to think me how even in one this of Communist system always was possible to find contractors. I recall even how one of the members of my group that is wanted to obtain something in exchange for a band of Hendrix of Jimmy only to discover that or of these two men (that had brought as much things with them as to do it a swelling that they had an entire store with them) had the idea more insignificant than it was. Naturally we explained that Jimmy Hendrix had been a player of guitar and they took the band although I do not recall that they gave for him. Of course it should be understood that these young men did not obtain these things for itself but to sell to them. A thing hit my room friend to the time as is curious that that incited to ask for him themselves they remained in the hotel to which it was said by an of these two young men that they were not. The it was while I asked how they managed to enter the hotel, having been said me that these only guests of hotel that showed a hotel card were allowed in. The it was while they said us that because their English was not bad and in fact the this was not and they got dressed as west they could enter and evidently they had. Later on I would meet two young others men in the hotel that tried to do also this than never the matters they are able and the it was of them than I learned really a lot of how the people in the Soviet Union felt towards not only American but a lot of things. It could seem strange to someone how I do not recall even the names of these two young men or same that they seemed of but I remind me almost all that perspired between the three of us. First I went with them to the Square instead of going Red with my group; after all if I had wanted to associate with American others, the one can imagine itself where I would have remained. A lot of things I had seen by out my trips in a lot of countries, Coliseum to Rome (now one of the world seven new prodigies) to the Tower Eiffel but or of these two monuments or other that I had seen for this question could surpass the grandness of "the Red Square". The place as I observed it on this frozen day in the month of December seemed so overwhelming that I was embarrassed fairly for the words. The this was not that the Kremlin or any of the buildings surrounding it; as the the one is hailed as the biggest store of toys of the world or same the cathedral of Bacle of Saint was this big one but the composition created by all that was Red Square than the had a such strong initial impact on me than I never will forget. It hypnotized to see this place and all its characteristics that for a moment gave me the impression of is in a city above the clouds. The embellishments on the buildings such are that they seemed almost unreal. I naturally after having having resumed lightly of my close shock has gone out my faithful Minolta to photograph this place and all that it included; that even had quite frankly the air of a small city rather then a big monument. The it was in the process to photograph this place that I began with a big lens angle; as to capture it all in a blow and then moved on to a zoom to obtain the cathedral of Basil of Saint; the beauty that of which is in my opinion the more under estimated. Useless to say that my camera captured all points of the Red Square of interest but no me no fascinated as much as Basil of Saint that to my spirit was the typical Russian cathedral. Naturally in all that was the Red Square the one could not neglect the presence of the devoted mausolede to Lenin; that was visited by the thousands that would discover themselves the cold one and the just heat to see the body of a corpse. As for me personally I had or the time or the inclination to be held on a line; even a current an as was the the one for the foreigners (as opposed to the other for the Soviet citizens) just to see that a man in what was in my opinion an act of idolatry. Predictable by then the Soviet Union having crossed a long time a process of change had removed the remainder of Joseph Staline of the presence of Lenin, that not this did the difference to me to the time or same now for this question. After to use them my personal guide, they took me to a small restaurant of neighborhood to Moscow, the kind of as a cafed (this French word having its roots in a Russian word meaning quickly) where we had sausage and tea. The it was there as opposed to the hotel that I discovered how inexpensive life could be at Moscow for someone that had the dollars United States or no typical other of change of the west, as much of that I wanted to treat my guides to that they had consumed only to discover the it was the that wanted to do the same manner for me. First I did not know really what to say and asked if I could pay at least for me but was said it would be good not to offend them while refusing their invitation. This I accepted. The it was during our time together that we discovered a lot of things of other every countries, for example they discovered that not New York was as dangerous a place to live in as they had been take to believes by the American television and their own media while I also was not excluded from the conclusion discovers a lot of interesting things. First of all that the Soviet ones, at least the people were not also anti- American as I had thought they would be and this as astonished really was as despite his popularity in America, specially apreds his last trip that had me intervened some weeks before; Gorbachov really was not liked in the Union Soviet by the average citizen, specially those that were not in the. This seemed first almost strong to believe as during his last trip to America (that had intervened the eighth December) the people had clothed literally the streets by the thousands despite the cold just one to obtain a summary of him, in the scenes evoking of "Beatlemania" to his summit. I for my account had gone even to where I knew that his car would pass the hope to obtain a photograph. The expression nevertheless more was done to want to be photographer then adoration, this in left motivated by the success I had had the same year to London when on the birthday of Elizabeth of Queen of tenth June that I managed to obtain a big head of blow pulled as her descended "The Gallery bargains over" in his open barouch. Gorbachov nevertheless was a different question at the same time as it was sunk a limo closed, that it did impossible to be able to obtain me any type of other photograph then an of his car. I recalled even the audience on the new ones, how it while is driven by Broadway had gone out of in fact his car (a lot of to my regret for is not there to capture on films this historic moment) on a day of cold extreme one to squeeze the hand of certain ones of the thousands that clothed the just streets to obtain a summary of him. This joy naturally caused to a lot while the panic to its guards that were also astonished as those that found themselves squeezing the hand with Gorbachov. The this had been a case that Gorbachov had not informed his security of what it would do in advance and because of this a lot of the cars of security had pushed only to discover after some seconds that the car of Gorbachov had stopped and that Gorvachov was located now in the middle of a crowd squeezing the hand with all those that left to accumulate for him. As foresaw that his security had pulls itself leg rear for him to obtain in the fear that something could arrive not which did of course but I can imagine which anxiety they could have crossed to the time. Among these people there was also of the showing of certain ones of the Soviet republics as Armednie; that even claimed that they felt for the first time that there was man that at least wanted to hear that they must say. After hearing that Gorbachov was not liked mostly that I asked the which one was of him that most of the people did not like and to this question I met a response that I did not understand really to the time and that was that most of the people did not like Gorvachov simply because his life level. The this was not because of the reasons or because of the political ideology or because of does not import what of the kind but the luxury that it had surrounds itself in. They mentioned how it flew around the world and they do not be able, how it had a fur coats, a credit card by the Deliberately American (given to him I imagine myself especially as advertising), the dear clothing while they did not do. I to this point did not see does not import what strange or curious in this as in America most of the Americans did not live just like our president (Ronald Reagan to the time) and if some did not like it; not it was without any doubts for this reason. There could have been other reasons as the "Iran Against the scandal" but that was another question but not because it did more of money then they did as this was and always is the case in most of the countries. This nevertheless was a case of what most of the people had come to accept in most of the countries that it had not importance that their leaders were financially better then they were so long as their own norm was acceptable to them. Nevertheless here in the Soviet people of Union did not want to know even that their leaders had more then they did even if the it was the first leader. This was maybe the explanation why the Soviet citizens were not allowed entering certain stores, the restaurants or the hotels, as they would be exposed to that they could not allow themselves in any case and maybe that their system of financial equality did not work really all that well. I for my clean one did not comment on on what I had heard; preferring nothing to say since I had not understood really that the mentality behind the words and then between rather to a quarrel with those that had treated me to this humble one but pleasant lunch I asked that they thought about American films. This they said me they someone had seen but several were forbidden as had been the case with "the Red Heat" staring at Arnold Schwarzenegger because of a scene in which the character played by Arnold (a Soviet policeman) exchanges a 10 watch of dollar for a 1,000 watch of dollar with an American policeman, played by Jim Belushi. I was curious how these two young men knew even of this scene, themselves they had not seen the film but this I did not ask. The it was after having a pleasant meal (that was not worse while I entered the hotel) in this place of friendly neighborhood that I incurred a risk and went to the apartment of an of these two young men to obtain that they had promised me that was a winter military Soviet coat and a Jersey of the team of national soccer. I not having a good party of does not import what to exchange offered them the dollars that they did not refuse nevertheless we ought return to my hotel to obtain as I had them on me. The it was while returning to the hotel that I took the subway of Moscow for the first time and was stunned to how many times the trains came and that it was deep, a factor that I did not know had been undesirable during Second World War given the bombardment of this city had been subjected to by the army of the German air. On the return to the hotel I paid them money I had promised them more a pile of "the Epargnants of Life" in a gesture after it them that had been to pay my sausage and my tea. Once concluded, the commerce matters by the exchange with the hour are not moved away from an evening an I decided to soak and to prepare itself for a night to the ballet. The bolshoi; the this would be as if the it could be other is at Moscow, naturally to the Bolshoi (this word meaning big in Russian) the theater. With this to the spirit I put my process, the only one an I had brought with me, a pleasant Cardin (is for him always fashionable to the time) on which I put my coat military recently obtained courtesy of the Soviet Union nevertheless; the it was on the counselor of our guide that I chose to carry another the one. Him being said me that we were in a country were civil specially foreigners were not allowed carrying the Soviet military dress; meaning that the it would be wise if I should put another coat that I did. The Bolshoi, I must say was stunning something, not as much theater that granted was big but not really impressive or at least step as much as the execution given by this magnificent group of dancers that my father and my grandfather always had said me as much of. Tchaikovsky "The dry Cookie of Ecrou" was what those in my group also I was enough privileged to see as evenings and although I already was familiar with the wonderful music; I was not as much of with the dance that went with that and as I looked at, it seemed that this was the more radiating of all the scenic arts in the consideration to. After the ballet, the it was of return to the Cosmos of Hotel for a cork in the evening that I took to the bar; the blows of Vodka caviar accompanied of which was in so dear America but in the Soviet Union was literally more inexpensive then groundnuts. The hotel had several bars, and the it was in every that there were women, some I could imagine was myself there to exchange other then just remember them for money, while of others have entered of the groups look for any inhabitant of the west to buy them a drink. By "them" I all means as they entered groups although this did not interest me other then just to see that the women in the Soviet Union carried that I would call an excessive quantity of form; despite most of them are a lot more appealing then the American average woman. The following day came and of the this of Kiev was on an airplane by Aeroflot. The it was something that I never will forget; be on the track and drowsing of in my seat during the long expectation that was demanded before of party, when suddenly I was awakens by the sensation of my ears is blocked by the pressure. I remind lightly disturbed for me; thinking that we probably had spent all this time and was on the ground only then to go it airplane to leave when the reality was that it was going to already land. A such smooths to leave and the this of flight was that it had not only does not awaken me, I had not noticed it even or the this could have been the Fact that my cold one did my very made drowsy with my lack of sleep of the night before. Kiev was an interesting city although maybe not as much as Moscow; but on this special visit the only thing that I reminder was at the far of my hotel; me always it the one to wonder me of the remainder and to ask a Soviet policeman if it could find me a taxi that a lot of to my surprise that it did. The this is on a that took several passengers; in a kind of improvised transportation as I had known in the countries as Argentina and as Peru. As for the policeman, it said me in the English broken how it was Armednie, a place that had suffered from the effects of an earthquake the preceding month, that did me the says how I had in fact donated 20 USES to a relief organization. I do not know if this man understood me really that but while saying good-bye in the gratitude for his having found me these means of transportation I transmitted it one of my piles of cigarettes; that did for him me gives a small knife of pen (that did not open even) in form of a fish as it said that the "to remember" of Jumped. With Kiev is smaller then Leningrad and Moscow, our stay was scraped to last only a night apreds which we would leave for Leningrad. I cannot say really that the it was in me that the night that I was to remain at Kiev that did does me that I did finally. This is to obtain what could be classified as extremely drunk. The vodka did I consume and enough it; maybe to show that American Italians like that their Soviet opposed parties could hold also their alcohol but this as never the it was I obtained sauced. In this elbow bending I seem to recall a Soviet one that engaged also in the even as I did after as we began a conversation in to try to resolve that was stupider? Claiming me that the it was American (me those referring themselves in my turn group) while it did the case for Russians; only to regulate the problem while proclaiming one draws between American and Russians as for that were the most harebrained one. In this night that descends with a certain degree of maybe on the joy my Soviet friend and I amused myself also while crushing our vodka glasses on the ground, that managed only to draw the attention of some policemen. The police nevertheless were called Militia to the time in the Soviet Union and two of them approached us and when I could not understand that they said one of them, took my guard with a poinason to the stomach. Who by all accounts should have banged the wind of me. This probably would have been the effect during the other circumstances but on this day after a half bottle of Vodka, I did not feel the blow that showed on my face as I did not lean myself even in the pain. This my reaction that sent almost this policeman in to shock as was clear on his face before I have tried to hit to him with my camera, apreds all it was a lot bigger one then me that holds me only to 5ae˛6aeł. Fortunately nothing happened the incident as the receptionist informed these policemen that I was invited to the hotel and not some peddler (as they calculated) that had entered to exchange dollars, which was of course illegal to the time. Leningrad and the last stop on our Soviet trip before our return to the states. Leningrad that I must say more was very interested in the less from the standpoint then Moscow. The city himself was different; apreds all this had been the country capital during the revolutions although that was passed it even then as at that very moment the Palace of Winter was the hermitage. With the hermitage is one of the bigger museums of the world I could not help but could spend an entire afternoon there of the three I had; although the one would demand really more time completely to appreciate the entire museum. In Leningrad, I was lucky to be enough given a hotel piece that in contrast to the a to Moscow and Kiev I did not have leaves it with any of the members of my group. This factor would prove advantageous as I would continue to meet two very young beautiful ladies of Kiev by the names of Victoria Ibanchenko and of Svetlana. The it was with these two friends that I would spend three very lecherous evenings (two with Victoria, the One with Svetlana), thanks to which I would draw the inspiration for "Svetlana Ibanchenko". Svetlana Ibanchenko is a fictitious Russian soprano in my book "the Corporation of Opera of New York". There was so romantic and nevertheless beautiful something in these two that their dreams and ambitions resumed me as I created this small one but important character in my first book. The tragedy would fill also my stay Leningrad as the it was there as I discovered as an American airplane (the Saucepan Is) had been the victim of a bomb with all the passengers while to fly across Scotland. At this point in time there was small for me to do but to know will that the it was I that had not been on this flight and continuous with the good time that I had; that is precisely that I did. The last night I would spend in Leningrad as I would leave evenings following was an I that will remain with me forever. My group and I went to see the ballet of Kirov and that one this of experience was. The Kirov was not less grandiose then the Bolshoi although different. My father had said me when I asked it that the difference was that the Kirov was more artistic while the Bolshoi was more dynamic and this I could see as I observed their execution of another piece of Tchaikovsky; this time "the Lake of Swan" and that a this of spectacle was. They seemed to float in the air; almost as themselves they could fly and had an energy of them that to allow them to do as they wished with their bodies with such grace that the it was almost as to look at angels. As for my last one two nights; these two were spent with Victoria and that knows what would have happened our relation had it was not for the "the iron Curtain" that it did almost impossible for her to come live with me in America. I tried to send it naturally an invitation but same this was difficult data the system closed his country had at the time and although I had not problems as for money when it was a matter to invite Victoria on to the States always the question was complicated more then I never would have considered possible. The it is hard for me to say what would have arrived maybe Victoria and I would have continued to be married and have children but then my life would have been another, although also the interest. I for my party my wish Victoria Ibanchenko of Kiev all the better one in this than never she decided to do with his life. On my return to New York that I dedicated naturally a lot of my time and of money to try to bring Victoria to America; that in the retrospective one I can say that I had fallen in the love with and although my attempts finished in failure, I can in all sincerity says that I did every effort to have she is with me in America. Once to New York; I also with the inspiration of having been in the Soviet Union still in me, went to see the "Mosayeb" universally famous (the business of folk dance Russian) that arrived to execute just to "the City of Radio". This also as the Bolshoi and as Kirov was an execution that left hypnotized me as it combined the grace and the music in a manner that expressed also as much of although maybe in a more modern method that was not less impressive. As a strange coincidence I will add that on tonight that I hit in to the man that had been our guide in the Soviet Union. In fact as much of was my desire to have Victoria came to America and to the interest in what I had seen in the Soviet Union that I even began taking special lesson in Russian, that would enter very useful a lot of years later in 1992 to Chile. A country that I never would have imagined would demand to speak to me Russian. The it was there to Santiago that a day after having having taken photographs for one of the newspapers that I was in the contact with saw a poster does the advertising for an execution following by the Bolshoi. By then I worked as an independent photographer and did not plan really on to see the Bolshoi; believing that the it would be dear but I was happy to see that they were in city. This is something practically to encourage about as there had been a time to Chile, not since a long time during the reign of Pinochet in which the Bolshoi and all something else of the Soviet Union were forbidden. The it was on the same day after seeing the poster that I walked in to a shoe store where held a couple; a woman of which the thin body distributed that she must have been ballerina with a man that had that I would classify as an athletic one although not muscular constructs. In all frankness did or take my attention until I heard speaking them Russian and the it was at this point in time that my spirit put two and two bodies. The Bolshoi was in city, this woman was very thin and spoke Russian if it was at this point in time that I decided to introduce me; that I did if using the Russian that I had learned in Poland just like my special lesson. I managed to obtain their names; his is Nina Semizorowa (that I would discover was later one of the bigger stars of Bolshoi and their first attraction on this special turn) and his the one is that I forgot although it was the husband of Nina. Naturally, my being photographer to the time did it that I had my camera that I obtained a clasp pulled of the two. I am ignorant of the ballet to the time did not realize that Nina was huge such a star of the Bolshoi and of this was not his humble personality that she gave far or as his husband and she was among the people more modest than I never had met. This despite or maybe because the two were stars of the Bolshoi; without doubte the better business of ballet in the world, where only the better one is allowed. The Bolshoi is at the ballet that the NBA is at the basketball or the "Serie ONE" is at soccer, basically a collection of the first talent of the world. As a grade of bottom of page I could add that an English actress named Joyce Frankenberg (later known as Jane Seymour or "Quinn of Doctor" on the mass TV with the same name) was accepted once in to the Bolshoi in which she because of the injury was only able to give an execution as a dancer star. After having having chatted to Nina Semizorowa and his husband I obtained quickly the developed photo and took it on to the hotel where I knew that they remained and the it was there where I obtained to meet the members remaining of the Bolshoi; that had done the trip to Chile. There was something of them that I must acknowledge did them among the people more interesting not only to look at the dance but to speak with and as I spoke to them one of their directors invited me on for the following day not only to look at the practice but to take photographs also. The it was that follows the day that I became a ballet fan, maybe it knew that the and can ask questions for them with to see dedicates it that they put in to that they did that did appreciates me the ballet all the more. I took a lot a photograph that would finish by in some newspapers of Chile although in all truth I do not recall that but which jutted out especially in my spirit was the friendships that I did with the members of the ballet of Bolshoi specially with a very young dancer of twenty years major by the name of Anna Petrova. The it was by one of the member of their entourage that she asked if I cared for to take his photograph and the envoy to her that I consented to do naturally. Anna was a shy girl of Leningrad that spoke the English well enough at least to hold a conversation that is that we did and that a this of pleasure was as I took not only photographs (using an entire role of film on her) but obtaining to know it. She is the one that could not have surpassed the 5 brand of foot by a lot of and of which the weight could not have been that a lot of more than 100 books but in this body held the force of the one that could execute movements of unbelievable grace as the ballet demands. As for our conversations, at least during our first encounter; they have concentrated especially on the ballet with me asking him a lot of questions that spread of what she is felt was herself the difference between the Bolshoi and the Kirov with his to say me that the it was difficult to put in to the words nevertheless it it was while I wanted to try the theory of my There Some truth in. I asked also to Anna as she felt Mosayeb as she claimed to be good but not as good as it had been once 20 years before. A lot of things were said between Anna and me that the day in a conversation that I found most of to fascinate but the a response she gave me that himself distinguished in my spirit was it the most when I asked it than she thought about American Ballet. The it was my question that produced his response and it I never will forget as I quote "American, French and the British ballet is very strong and good but we are the better one". A declaration that would be lasts to dispute incited my return "as is the "the dream team" in the basketball". My commentary is done as that was the year in which Jordan, the Bird, Johnson of Magic, Carl Malone and a lot of others showed Olympic Games to their unbelievable talent during the Barcelona as the now legendary one "the dream team". On this day to the public studio that had been designated to the Bolshoi; I obtained also to speak with the other members of the Bolshoi; one of the are friend of Anna that said me that it had received several offers of the businesses of American ballet of more of money but feared fact the given movement than it had heard maybe correctly or incorrectly that a lot of ballets. It nevertheless considered the offer done to him by the Ballet of Geoffrey but was not sure nevertheless. The something else that this young dancer of ballet said included me that it did not have really shows it his system as much of as certain of the female dancers and that it felt that there were some dancers in the Bolshoi that not it had done as much of because of their capacities of dance but their connections in the party. I could not say of course does not import what as for this commentary; knowing me does not import what with consideration but I was astonished to his commentary, as much of what it had declared but that it had of the just as I could imagine myself there was a time, not if since a long time where the one could have been in boredom. The day had been grandiose but the night would not be less as I was going to see the ballet of Bolshoi in action to execute the scenes of a lot of ballets that included "the Lake of Swan", "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Breaks Hazel" by Tchaikovsky with of others as "Giselle" by Adams. I remind me notably this last a data that the it was the one that presented my new friend (that unfortunately I lost the contact with) Anna Petrova in the first role and which an execution she gave. In the word this nevertheless I must acknowledge in order not to to be ballet connoisseur as I am something else as soccer or singing or acting; that it does difficult for me to give an impartial view of his execution that evenings but to my eyes she was wonderful in the role that she played. She danced as a bubble of a bath, not rebounding even on the step but in the air as her delighted all these presents, one of the are the president of Chile to the time; Patricio Aylwin. To me not only Anna but all the members of the Bolshoi did not dance as themselves they danced to the music that played for them but as if their dance created the music, such was the coordination between the music and the movements that it seemed that they the one were in the same. As themselves they were a picture that was created by the music and that it was grandiose that the night as I obtained to see something that will last with me until the end of my days and all not only because of the spectacle I observed but the friendship link that had been created. The following day I went to the Inn of Vacation to see members of the Bolshoi and specially my friend Anna Petrova; that I had consented to meet at a certain hour only to discover that she and the remainder of the members of the Bolshoi, were not any return of an extended discussion that they gave to the Chilean press that lasted more than two. I nevertheless had not objections the expectation as the it was while I did for that I met a man of Chile that had been one of the responsible people to bring the Bolshoi to Chile. We as the one can foresee talked about the Bolshoi (in Spaniard) and how they had been allowed coming to Chile now that Pinochet no longer was the president. Speech liberty nevertheless had not come completely as the government, influenced by the Catholic church had forbidden the group in metal, heavy and British "the girl in iron" to play Santiago on their 1992 turn of South America. Once my Anna of friend returned to the hotel that our time was limited to say good good-bye given his last arrival (that she was sorry for) and the Fact that she and the remainder of the Bolshoi had the small time to obtain to their flight per hour. Anna and I took a walk around the hotel that must have lasted almost 15 minutes in which ones did not talk about us the ballet but our lives and tastes in the music; his advertisement to like Elvis Presley outside of Tchaikovsky and to claim me to be found girl in iron outside of the opera and of classical music. Unfortunately the time was not on our side as I would have liked to take it to a pleasant place for the given lunch, not as much of in reason of my physical attraction towards she but my desire to appreciate his business, nevertheless this was of not to be as had us limit we to exchange addresses, therefore I could send it the photos I had taken. I for my party bought it a flower of a salesman of street as a time brand runs but friendly that we spent together. I would continue to send it the photographs although quite frankly I am not sure that she never received them as I did not obtain from response of her but this has not any importance as much of as I truly was delighted by not only meets me with the Bolshoi but with Anna Petrova.