Description:
Text transcribed from caption: J-46164 PANOVS TO MAKE AMERICAN DEBUT
PHILADELPHIA -- Ballet stars Valery and Galina Panov, who were allowed to
leave the Soviet Union last June after a two-year struggle, will perform
together for the first time ever in the Western Hemisphere on Dec. 10 at the
Spectrum in Philadelphia. Their benefit performance for Soviet Jewry is being
sponsored by the Spectrum, Philadelphia's 12,500-seat arena, and the Jewish
Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia in cooperation with the
National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The Panovs will be accompanied by the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Valery Panov, a Jew, had been ousted from his
position as leading male dancer with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet when he and his
wife, Galina, applied for an exit visa to Israel in April 1972. He was
imprisoned twice during 1972. Neither he nor his wife, who had been a solo
dancer with the Kirov Ballet, were permitted to dance publicly in the Soviet
Union for almost two years. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
(C-PHI-10D-74-DS)
Creator:
Wachovia Spectrum (Philadelphia, Pa.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Panov, Valery, 1938-, Panova, Galina., Wachovia Spectrum (Philadelphia, Pa.), Akademii︠a︡ russkogo baleta im. A.I︠A︡. Vaganovoĭ., Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova., Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia., National Conference on Soviet Jewry (U.S.), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Topics:
Ballet dancers--Soviet Union., Ballerinas--Soviet Union., Jews--Soviet Union., Fund raising--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361512