Word: ballerina
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...green bathed in a ghostly aquamarine light to evoke the haunting, elusive beauty of the lake and its enchanted bird-women. But it was the dancing that the audience came to see, and the dancing overshadowed everything else. Before the performance was well under way, a lithe, vivacious ballerina named Alia Sizova stopped the show with her lyrical dancing in the pas de trois of Act I. Sweltering balletomanes interrupted a dozen more times to applaud Alexander Pavlovsky's nimble jester, the ethereal cygnets of Act II, the despairing swans of the finale. In the difficult dual role...
Subsequent foolery had Kovacs in a Cecil B. DeMille suit, grafted by trick camera work on antique film clips as a furious and futile director. The joke dragged on too long. But it was followed by one inspired bit of mockery: an immense, grossly fat ballerina staggering to the first crashing chords of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, with the rest of that philharmonic turkey illustrated by rhythmically cracking celery and splattering eggs...
...title role, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn offered one of the finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael Somes), her movements had the kind of effortless grace that commanded immediate conviction. At one point, hovering in her lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness...
...equally ambitious, far more controversial ballet with a supernatural theme was stirring up critics in Europe last week. The work: Dybbuk, by Choreographer Herbert Ross. Staged by Ballets of Two Worlds, the company recently formed by Ross and his wife, Ballerina Nora Kaye, Dybbuk proved to be a three-act excursion into cabalistic legend. Long intriguing to dramatists,* the Dybbuk legend in the Ross ballet version was set to a sparkling score by Vienna-born Composer Robert Starer. Ballerina Kaye was cast in the role of the heroine, Leah, whose body is possessed by a dybbuk, or demon...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Van Cliburn, Benny Goodman, Sally Ann Howes, Howard Keel, Ballerina Melissa Hayden. Color...