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A Conversation with Gloria Fokine September 1, 2004 Printed in Ballet Review, Spring 2007 (WP) Wendy Perron, editor in chief, Dance Magazine (FOKINE) Gloria Fokine, born Gloria González Negreira in Havana in 1925 WP:  What are your earliest memories of seeing dance? FOKINE:  In Cuba there was an organization called Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical, which was […]

At least Natalie Portman was much better than I thought/feared. I expected her to be like Anne Bancroft in The Turning Point. When the camera zoomed in on Bancroft’s her face during barre, you could tell right away that she’d never done a tendu, that she was “acting” the part of a fiercely disciplined dancer. […]