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...Ballet-flat wearing sprite Phoebe L. Zen ’08 rocked the next camo-too-cool-for-you design, made by Irene S. Choi...
Theater set design is by nature ephemeral, rarely exerting an influence beyond the end of a show's run. Not so the fabled British designer Oliver Messel's scheme for the Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty, first staged in London in 1946. When it opened in New York City in 1949, wrote the legendary ballerina Margot Fonteyn, "Applause greeted the set before anyone danced a step." (Though five other designers of The Sleeping Beauty have been subsequently commissioned, Messel's was a fairy-tale setting the Royal reckoned had never been bettered: to mark its 75th anniversary, the company...
...race, interests, life experiences—you name it, we’ve got it. But for the most part, all the pretty pieces of our colorful puzzle keep more or less to themselves. The Democrats have their group, and the Republicans have theirs; the football players and the ballet dancers inhabit separate spheres; there’s one organization for the Chinese students and another for the Irish. Yup, we’re all here, but with all of the separation, it isn’t too often that one gets to see our seemingly picture perfect diversity live...
Theater set design is by nature ephemeral, rarely exerting an influence beyond the end of a show's run. Not so the fabled British designer Oliver Messel's scheme for the Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty, first staged in London in 1946.[an error occurred while processing this directive] When it opened in New York City in 1949, wrote the legendary ballerina Margot Fonteyn, "Applause greeted the set before anyone danced a step." (Though five other designers of The Sleeping Beauty have been subsequently commissioned, Messel's was a fairy-tale setting the Royal reckoned had never been bettered...
...Malika Hale's parents urged her toward an internship last summmer because "they felt like it would be good for college." But the 16-year-old ballet dancer from Santa Fe, N.M., was just plain bored. "I just wasn't excited about school or dance or anything anymore. I wanted to do something real...