Gerd Törd

Gerd Törd, “The Prune Danish of Russian Ballet,” abandoned an enormously successful career as a film actress to become a Trock­adero ballerina. Her faithful fans, how­ever, need not despair as most of her great films have been made into ballets: the searing Back to Back, the tear-filled Thighs and Blisters, and the immortal seven-part Screams from a Carriage.