Word: ballerina
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Wednesday, March 13 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (ABC, 8:30-11 p.m.).* Danny Kaye as the old Danish storyteller, assisted by Farley Granger and Ballerina Jeanmaire...
...free itself from the rules, clichés and conventions of the past. In the regal prime of classical ballet, the dancer's craft was devoted to polishing and perfecting an established series of formalized gestures; choreography was as structured as a French garden. Today, however, a ballerina may have to arch on point in one sequence, boogaloo in another, then writhe on the floor like a snake on the make...
...Cincinnati Civic Ballet, which has 475 students presently in its school, imports such stellar guests as the New York City Ballet's Violetta Verdy and Edward Villella. It is only fitting. As part of a vast farm system for the larger companies, Cincinnati supplied Balanchine with his reigning ballerina, Suzanne Farrell...
...TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A searching look at ballet through the person of the New York City Ballet Company's soloist, Edward Villella. The camera studies him onstage performing two George Balanchine ballets, offstage choreographing a new pas de deux, and at home with his wife, Ballerina Janet Greschler...
...troupe is fully up to such dramatic demands. Some of its brightest stars are Americans-Lawrence Rhodes of Detroit, who brings to Dead Boy and Time Out of Mind an overwhelming sense of racking passion under superb muscular control, and New Yorker Brunilda Ruiz, an agile, high-leaping prima ballerina. The company's foreign-born dancers, ranging in origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans are relatively weak in classical training," he says, "but they make...