Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riddle and This Is Russia Uncensored. His wife Nina became a U.S. citizen in 1943. is a 1946 graduate of Wellesley. They have one son, Moscow-born Edmund Jr., 22, an M.I.T. graduate, and one daughter, U.S.-born Anastasia, 17, who is studying at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet School...
...rich, philistine Edwardian society, the Manners family was an island of liberal, slightly wacky culture. Mother patronized that daring new thing, the Russian Ballet, and was a talented artist. Once Queen Victoria posed for her briefly. (The duchess had to finish the sketch by rigging out a servant in a pudding-basin and mantilla.) Diana's sister-in-law took some pigs up in an airplane to prove that they could fly. Once in Venice the rich young pixies were visited by an old family friend, dressed him up as a doge and danced around him to celebrate...
...curricular activities, as well as some unusual ones. In addition to a Fellowship of Faiths, an International Relations Club, a Dramatic Club, a Dance Club, a radio station, class choirs, department clubs, a glee club, an orchestra, a newspaper, a literary magazine, and a yearbook, there is a water ballet, which last spring performed in Florida, and a very active Boots and Saddles Club...
Choreographer Ross based his work on an early (1902) Thomas Mann story, a sort of literary foothill to his later Magic Mountain. The ballet began in a stark hospital room done in astringent blues and whites. The tuberculous heroine (Ballerina Nora Kaye) beat feebly on the single closed door, panted, felt her heart, slithered onto a chair and sank to the floor in a crawling frenzy. She was joined there by the hero (Erik Bruhn). Together they clutched, held, tangled and disentangled in a series of movements that ranged from the supine to the ridiculous...
...other Ballet Theatre new works, Swedish Choreographer Birgit Cullberg's Miss Julie was an unqualified success. Long popular in Europe, Miss Julie sticks closely to August Strindberg's savage little drama of the same name about a neurotic, highly sexed "half-woman" who seduces her family's butler during a wild celebration of Midsummer Eve. Shamed by the images of her aristocratic ancestors, she forces him to kill her. (In the original she commits suicide.) Danced by Violette Verdy and Erik Bruhn, it successfully translated the purely psychological tensions of the original into movement that was both...