Word: ballerinas
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...enjoyed trouncing countesses at bridge and Prime Ministers at lunch-table debates. He became a leader of the Bloomsbury set of avant-garde writers and painters, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster. At a party at the Sitwells, he met Lydia Lopokova, a ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life, said Keynes shortly before his death of a heart attack, was that he had not drunk more champagne...
...greatest Dane of them all, Erik Bruhn, who at 37 is the supreme danseur noble. The finest technician on two feet, his endless pursuit of classic perfection forgoes the kind of passionate abandon that marks the style of Rudolf Nureyev, the only other dancer in his class. Says one ballerina: "Nureyev is like Callas singing Bellini; Bruhn is like Schwarzkopf singing Mozart." But Bruhn has learned something about characterization from his friend Nureyev. As Don Jose in Roland Petit's version of Carmen, Bruhn was a man possessed, a smoldering Valentino driven by lust and racked with despair. Eyes...
...were sexier, argued the newspaper's columnist, with something less than perfect logic, "she would have been forgotten long ago." Still, remembering her performances in An American in Paris and Lili, Moscow's Louella sighed approvingly: "She is a fine actress, always believable, and an excellent ballerina...
...Picasso, the taste of theater was seductive. He stayed on with the Ballet Russe for eight years. He married Diaghilev Ballerina Olga Koklova, sketched the troupe as it rehearsed, painted dancers' portraits, and designed theater curtains, scenery and costumes for five more ballets-often appearing in the wings on opening night with paint and brushes to add his final touch...
Flamenco at Toulouse. Among the sketches in the show are several sly caricatures of Diaghilev, a top hat perched on his balding pate, a pince-nez trailing across his crooked countenance. There is a portrait of the ballerina Koklova, previously seen only by Picasso's intimate friends. Some of the most delightful works are sets and costumes designed for Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, a merry Spanish folk tale replete with flamenco dancers. For the Toulouse Festival, the Paris Opéra reproduced the 1919 costumes, including a coquettish gown that the original first ballerina...