Word: balletomaniac
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...gaunt, Boston esthete and dance man, Lincoln Kirstein, decided that the U. S. needed home-grown ballet. Rich Balletomaniac Kirstein pooled funds with Edward M. M. Warburg (son of Banker Felix Warburg), got together a bevy of young U. S. ballet dancers, and hired famed Russian Dance Master George Balanchine to teach them. Impresarios Kirstein and Warburg started their venture as a school. But it soon grew into a fledgling ballet troupe, known as the American Ballet...
...trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays Critic Haskell takes...
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