Word: ballerina
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...Ballerina Maria Tallchief and her partner, Jacques d'Amboise, performed on a temporary stage. Guests included Actresses Janet Leigh and Mitzi Gaynor. Said Johnson in a champagne toast: "There can be no real and lasting peace in Europe until Germany is united, united by self-determination in peace and in freedom...
...Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring to new heights on the wings of Prima Ballerina Marcia Haydée's fluttering, levitating flight through a lush forest primeval...
...male dancer reaches into a movie screen for his ballerina and performs a perfect pas de deux with her projected image. A pianist plays onstage accompanied by seven movie versions of himself, playing different instruments. A roller skater, chasing four girls who have boarded a bus, rolls downhill on the narrow streets of the oldest quarter of Prague, dodging pedestrians, cars, cops, beer carts, fire engines, lampposts. This roller skater is onstage as well as on various screens, weaving and skirring from one medium to the other. Some spectators found this bizarre slalom more breathtaking than the roller-coaster ride...
...piano classes in Vienna, and every dancer states the same ambition: "First to be in the corps, then a soloist, then a principal." The resuit of such spirit is a company amazingly deep in great dancers; the merest member of the corps, Balanchine insists, could have been a prima ballerina in imperial Russia...
SOUTHEAST ASIA The Prince & the Dragon (See Cover) It was a great party. After the French champagne and the Viennese waltzes came Bopha Devi, prima ballerina of the Royal Cambodian Ballet. Sinuous and shimmering, dressed in green and gold, she danced a ritual dance in bare feet. When she accidentally dropped her ring, a woman servant slithered across the parquet floor on her belly to pick it up lest Bopha bruise herself...