Word: balleto
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From Hollywood he had imported Igor Stravinsky to conduct his own Petrouchka, Vera Zorina to glamorize a new ballet called Helen of Troy. But the real balleto manes, who study pirouettes and entre chats as devoutly as a prizefight fan studies left hooks, knew that the season was no great shakes esthetically. They went to Sol Hurok's ballet very largely for one little reason. That reason was a five-foot-two-inch dancer named Alicia Markova...
...soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project emotion that bowls over even the uninitiates in the audience. Balleto manes may discuss the superb qualities of her sustained Arabesques (balancing on one toe) and battements de gages (kicks from a tiptoe position), but even the man from the street can tell that Markova is a sensation in tights...
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