Word: ballerina
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Suddenly the mechanical doll (Italian Ballerina Leda Lojodice) materializes before him, and the two dance across the ice in a final pirouette to the game of life. Watching the scene unfold, Fellini's assistant director, Gerald Morin, smiled softly. "So this is what Fellini thinks it all comes down to-a vacuous man dancing with a mechanical doll. Only a middle-aged man growing cynical could make such a statement. How sad. How honest...
...bride choked a bit on the sacramental wine, and one elderly babushka-topped guest kept protesting the presence of a photographer. Otherwise the San Francisco marriage of Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 35, and Electronics Executive Edward Karkar, 43, came off like a perfect pas de deux. Among the guests: Dancers Alexander Minz and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, like Makarova, had once belonged to the Soviet Union's Kirov Ballet. The bride, who had been married prior to her 1970 defection from the Kirov, did not bother with a honeymoon this time around. One day after the ceremonies, she began rehearsals...
Strains of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky filter through the windows of the three-story brick building on 152nd Street. Inside rehearsal pianos thump in the three studios, trumpet blasts pierce the music room, and sewing machines buzz in the basement costume department. A nine-year-old pastes sequins on a ballerina's tutu. Dancers study acting, music, dance notation. D.T.H. builds its own scenery, and company members help the technical crew put up the show. They even know how to make costumes. If a dancer's costume pulls or sags in the crotch, he can tell the seamstress that...
...What we are doing is not female impersonation," insists Primo Ballerino Bassae, 33, "it's a ballerina imitation. Nijinsky originally wanted to dance the Firebird so it's not something we discovered...
...should be able to go up on point. Bassae agrees: "Ballet seems always made by men for women. I think that it's a challenge to change that. When I put on a pair of toe shoes, I found out what fun it was to be a glamorous ballerina character...