10 JUNE 1972, Page 20

Arts Choice

• The Royal Ballet, back from New York, begin their new season at Covent Garden next Friday ((June 16) with the triple-bill, Serenade, Triad and The Dream. Russian ballerina Natalia Makar,ova makes her first guest appearance with the company in Giselte on June 20.

• Silhouettes, the most accurate likenesses of people before the popularisation of photography, are the subject of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from June 14. The period covertd in the main is 1770-1860, but there are some contemporary silhouettes by Honoria Marsh.

• Those curious about Kabuki who can't get to London for the Sadler's Wells season can see a TV excerpt in Review this Friday (June 9, BBC2), a programme in which G. Berger also appears to ta about ll' d•oo yLesopmolpdbSotooykowski conducts the Oni in Brahms's First, the preludes Owcheedstbreasdaaty t(hje Festival Hall next unReen)rli)e Meistersinger and L'Apr'es-midi fuanuonves; avniodliShilvooiahoMeratrocovici plays Oa' II Anyone hooked on Kathakali as a ref; suit of the recent World Theatre Seasi,e appearance should be interested in, one-off recital of Mohiniattam ana x`a;',of akali dances by Tara Rajkumar Oar' s-t the Bedford Park Festival) Michael's, Woodstock Road, at A Park, W.,4, this Friday (June 9). Bedf°ru • London shows closing: hurry if Y,I94)11 want to see Marlene Dietrich (Queen ',T1' AAllpbherat BFaitnane(yApaonidio)Roarchtebl oRoberts close sge June Secretary Bird (Sav°:)"1.11:11