Volume 25, Number 14 · September 28, 1978
Theater of Cruelty
By Gennady Smakov
To Dance
by Valery Panov, by George Feifer
Knopf, 397 pp., $15.00
Valery Panov and George Feifer have a highly dramatic, indeed tragic, story to tell in this book: the story of how the gifted dancer was prevented from developing his talents on the stage of the Kirov Theater in Leningrad. They tell how Panov became instead a puppet in the cruel and absurd bureaucratic theater of Soviet culture.
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