Fluttering, whirling, and otherwise kicking up their heels, the 95 dancers of the Moiseyev Dance Company blew into Manhattan last week, as bracing as a shot of Stolichnaya on a midwinter Moscow evening. Almost a half-century old, the venerable Soviet folk troupe was back in the U.S. for the first time in a dozen years. Their three-month, 16-city tour is a prominent part of the cultural exchange program re-established at the 1985 Geneva summit that so far has weathered the always mercurial, adversarial relationship between the superpowers.
Tear gas too. On opening night, just as the dancers were starting a coy...
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