Word: ballerina
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...20th century master Igor Stravinsky conducts his own Petrouchka suite, the Two Little Suites and Scherzo a La Russe. To add the final touch of diversity, the New York City Ballet will appear Aug. 6-11, performing two of George Balanchine's latest ballets. The greatest U.S. prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, has just rejoined the company. ∙ASPEN (June 26-Aug. 25) is the headiest of the festivals. To begin with, it is 7,900 ft. above sea level amid Colorado's breathtaking Rocky Mountain scenery. The nine-week music festival runs in tandem with the skull-stretching...
...story is simple: Prince Albert, a young French aristocrat, is totally absorbed in the memory of an eccentric ballerina, Leocadia, who, in a dramatic gesture, strangled herself with her scarf three days after meeting Albert. Albert, thinking himself in love with Leocadia, can do nothing but relieve his three days with her. His old aunt, the Duchess, has bought all the places Albert and Leocadia visited (a nightclub, a park bench, etc.) and placed them on her estate. At the beginning of the play she brings Amanda, a girl who resembles Leocadia, to the estate to complete memory lane. Amanda...
...indict Senator Hardy for not fulfilling a government fertilizer (wonderful stuff for a certain sort of joke) contract. At the same time Wholsa falls out with Marsh, and in with the Crimean Igor Beevor; Pansy's son Andy out with a love of medicine and in with the seductive ballerina Katerina Artburnova; and eventually, Pansy out with Senator Colder and back in with Senator Hardy. Reunions, reprises, finale...
Born. To Moira Shearer, 37, titian-haired British ballerina-actress (The Red Shoes) and Ludovic Kennedy, 43, radio and TV broadcaster and sometime Liberal politician: their fourth child, first son; in Amersham, Buckingham...
After 42 years on the boards. England's first prima ballerina, Alicia Markova (nee Lilian Marks), 52, ever so casually announced that she was turning in her tutu to teach. Boarding a New York-bound jet at London Airport, the Dresden-fragile dancer, who has been plagued with illness since a tonsillectomy last February, told reporters simply: "My New Year's resolution is to give up active dancing...