Dance Review: Youth America Grand Prix Honors Natalia Makarova, Ballerina

International Herald Tribune Sunday 29th April, 2012

On Saturday at the David H. Koch Theater a dozen or so of the foremost ballet dancers in the world performed. And yet the star of the evening - there was never any doubt about this - did not appear onstage until after all the dancing was over.

She was Natalia Makarova, the great Russian ballerina, retired since 1989, and the evening was a tribute to her, a gala presented by the Youth America Grand Prix, an annual ballet scholarship competition.

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