Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tchaikovsky's delightful Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker, as staged by famed Choreographer George Balanchine. Along with 40 children, the dancers include 55 adult members of the New York City Ballet, led by Soloists Diana Adams and Allegra Kent. For viewers who need words as well, Actress June Lockhart narrates live and in color...
...feels that the Russian arts all froze at about 1923. Even the best motion pictures were little more than pale imitations of German experimentalism, in the 1930's. And the ballet, "while given lavish productions and excellently performed, is a little old-fashioned. Nothing modern--about 1910 in conception...
...horse expert, to 30 of the finest blooded fillies in London. Dair & Co. had cause to hear a betting and breeding lecture. As students at the Cygnets House, the most exclusive finishing school in England, they must learn to "talk politics with Eden at lunch on Monday, ballet with Dame Margot on Tuesday, racing with Aly Khan on Wednesday...
Composer Constant's greatest fear is that he might "stay on the road along which everything has already been said.'' In an effort to avoid that fate, he has produced such bizarre works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael...
...audience seldom has a sense of what is coming and may quite literally be hit with it. The evening offers a series of memorably wacky pictures: a man contentedly nibbling a dog biscuit; a superb high-kicking chorus line with one girl always kicking the wrong leg; a male ballet dancer suddenly blushing at his own immodest tights...