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...after you, like me, realize you can’t do more than eight push-ups in a row.…Perform full choreographed routines to “Sexy Back”:Whether we were once the young girl who dreamt about growing up to be a ballerina before realizing she would prefer to keep her toes intact, or the nerdy teenage boy who grinded up to his high school crush only to be turned away, we have all made failed efforts at attractively moving our bodies to music.Perhaps this single fact explains the success of Fox?...
...Azria was looking for a design partner. A mutual friend sent Azria's way a Ukrainian-born former ballerina who had attended Los Angeles' Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and had worked for several small designers but was considering leaving fashion for her other passion, art. Her name was Lubov. "In the interview he asked me one question: Are you global, or are you detail oriented?" she says. "I said, 'The latter.' And he said, 'Great, you're hired because I'm global.'" Soon Azria asked Lubov another question. "He asked me to marry him after a shopping trip...
...most profitable companies, famously claiming to have slept only two hours a night on his road to success. He resigned in disgrace in 2004 after being convicted of illegally tapping the phone of a journalist who had written negative articles on the company. DIED. Melissa Hayden, 83, lyrical, vibrant ballerina who became an international standout in George Balanchine's famously starless New York City Ballet; in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Such was her status in a company known for downplaying individual artists that when she announced her retirement in 1973, Balanchine created a work in her honor, Cortege Hongrois, that...
DIED. Melissa Hayden, 83, lyrical, vibrant ballerina who became an early international standout in George Balanchine's famously starless New York City Ballet; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Such was her status in a company known for downplaying individual performers that after she announced her retirement in 1973, Balanchine created a work in her honor, Cortge Hongrois, which remains in the company's repertoire. Blunt, generous and emotional, Hayden, who taught until her death, dazzled in diverse ballets like the bouncy, light-hearted Stars and Stripes, with music by John Philip Sousa, and Illuminations, an allegorical meditation on the life...
...only formed the basis for an impressive career in dance, but also brought her the Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize, awarded annually by the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA). Growing up in a military family, few may have expected Altenburg to become a ballerina. She cites her unusual aptitude for “creative movement as a kid” that made dancing an outlet for self-expression. Altenburg studied at The Washington School of Ballet for seven years and recounts that she practiced from three to eight rigorous hours a day. She turned to dance with a professional...