Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-frozen field at the Polo Grounds they put on a stirring show With the poise and precision of a well-trained ballet troupe, they pranced through their T-formation tricks. Tommy Thompson, Greasy's aging quarterback, who admits to 31 but is nearer 34, handled the ball as deftly as a shell-game operator at a county fair. An old halfback from L.S.U., 2O5-lb. Steve Van Buren, slithered past Giant tacklers for 53 yards to break his own league record for ground gained in a single season (his new mark: 1,050 yards). The Eagles...
Manhattan's bustling little City Opera Co. (TIME, Nov. 3, 1947 et seq.) proved it knew how to give the classics a new shine. Last week it was the turn of City Opera's bright young sister outfit, the City Ballet Co., to show it could do the same with the dance...
There were two Boston premieres in the Ballet Theater's program for Monday. The first of these was Agnes De Mille's "Fall River Legend," which is "suggested by" the story of Lizzie Borden, who "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks." It is an interesting theater-piece, but made so mostly by the miming of Nora Kaye and the sets of Oliver Smith...
...that the murderess was a lonely, rejected girl. It is a tribute to Nora Kaye's dramatic abilities rather than her recognized dancing talents, that "Fall River Legend" is saved from the lugubrious. Her dancing with the image of her mother (Diana Adams) is an effective bit, however. The ballet suffers from being too long for its content, and from the Morton Gould music...
...other new ballet was George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations" which uses music of Tchaikowsky. It is one of those abstract jobs, with no book but with lots of opportunity for the corps de ballet and the soloists to show their stuff. The soloists were Igor Youskevitch and Maria Tallchief. Mr. Youskevitch is generally regarded as the best classical male dancer in the country, but he seemed Monday night, with all his technique, to be lacking in vitality and fire. But the highlight of the evening was the performance of Miss Tallchief. She is an exciting new classical dancer...