Word: ballerina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solved the star problem by coaxing ageless Ballerina Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks) back into the fold to be guest star. It also commissioned Broadway-famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille to do a new number, Harvest According, and got its own ballet master, Edward Caton, to whip up another, Triptych. It was again scheduling an "American Composers Night," when Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Virgil Thomson would conduct their own ballets...
When Massine's company first got to Perugia, a Rome newspaper ran a picture of French Ballerina Geneviève Lespagnol going through her rehearsal paces in ballet tights. Since she plays the Virgin Mary, the picture created quite a stir. A deputation of five Dominicans came around to keep an eye on rehearsals, but the company's directors managed to reassure them...
...Director George Balanchine was born in Russia, but is a U.S. citizen. Ballerina Tanaquil Leclercq was born in Paris, but moved to New York City as a child. Star Maria Tallchief is more American than most: she is part Indian. The corps is almost entirely from New York...
Onstage, Songstress Clooney's gestures are deft, her manner friendly. Her working costume is never sexy or slinky, always demure white, usually with a fitted bodice and flaring ballerina skirt. No one knows better than Rosemary that she will never be another Dietrich. "Yeah," she admits, "I guess it's a compliment to be called the wholesome type. With what I've got to work with, as a femme fatale I'm dead...
...years to be confused with glamorous Prima Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, 34, one of the two ranking stars of the unrivaled ballet company of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...