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...cast of O, the beautifully buoyant Cirque du Soleil water extravaganza at the Bellagio, wore circus motley: urchin's togs, ballerina gowns, penguin suits and the odd clown nose. Last week's opening-night audience, though, was outfitted in formal evening wear--1,800 exponents of money and glamour. It was just the sort of crowd Steve Wynn would like to see at his new hotel every night. So would the other high-rolling master builders in this high-desert fantasyland. Like an aging chorine who learns a little French and buys a Chanel frock in hopes of attracting...
This ballet is a dynamic combination of acting, technique and artistry requiring the ballerina to be both technically strong and artistically mature in order to individualize and portray what is one of the most difficult and most legendary scenes in ballet--Giselle's mad scene at the end of the first...
Offstage, Robbins was a self-made enigma who gave interviews rarely and only on his own terms, meaning no personal questions. Though his homosexuality was an open secret, he never discussed it in public, going so far in 1951 as to become engaged to the ballerina Nora Kaye. (They never married. Interestingly, he cast her as the novice man killer in The Cage.) It took a subpoena to get him to talk about his private life: he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 about his involvement with a communist group of the '40s, naming eight other...
LOVABLE RUSSIA The Girl from Petrovka (1974; 3) is a detente-era movie: Russian ballerina Goldie Hawn and American journalist Hal Holbrook find romance...
DIED. TAMARA GEVA, 91, witty Russian ballerina-actress; in New York City. Geva, just shy of 16, married the choreographer George Balanchine, becoming, as her autobiography Split Seconds put it, "the first Galatea to his Pygmalion." She set aside dancing in the '30s to act and later starred in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance...