Dance Review by Anna Kisselgoff

CONCLUDING A SEASON, FITTINGLY, WITH PYROTECHNICS

And so, like all good things, American Ballet Theater’s season must come to an end. Friday night found the company in its Fourth of July mood with an Americana program, and closing night on Saturday gave an overflow crowd at the Metropolitan Opera House a display of pyrotechnics...

...In the Balanchine department, Nina Ananiashvili, flamboyant and exultant, gave "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux" the freedom it had when Violette Verdy originally danced the ballerina role. She did charge into her fish dives, but Mr. Roberts, her solid partner, was there to catch her...