Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep a child like that interested in finger painting all year." Each pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons to develop muscular control. They have visited the College of Puget Sound to hear a lecture on satellites, each Tuesday afternoon play host to a foreign student from the college who tells them about his country. At four, the children begin conversational Spanish, at six French, at eight German...
...approaching Igor Stravinsky's new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new Columbia disk) and trying to imagine what a choreographer could possibly make of it. Here and there the music suggests images of human activity. Fanfares sound: Are they bugle calls for some grand but ragged army? A truncated funeral march is heard: Is a man or an age being mourned? A troubadour's mandolin sounds a little sour: Is love being mocked...
...free-for-all takes place on a bare stage, as twelve dancers in practice costumes bounce in and out with classic grace, fitting into seemingly insoluble patterns. But their movements have none of the solemnity of the classic ballet, are free and relaxed, like those of children racing in and out of games. The dancers tie themselves up in little knots and delight in getting out of them gracefully. As the music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden...
...Ballet for Balance. Arnold Fenton has long practiced what he preaches; as a four-year-old, he booted drop kicks over his mother's clothesline in Metuchen, N.J. By the time he hit the University of Pennsylvania in 1922, he could drill a drop kick through the uprights from 45 yds. out. But as a Penn sophomore, Fenton suffered a concussion in an early scrimmage. He never played again. "When I got clobbered like that," he explains, "I turned to kicking as compensation...
Along with "ChooChoo" Justice, some 350 other college punters have w'orked for hours at special exercises (including one similar to the ballet dancer's tour en I'air) to achieve Fenton's No. 1 fundamental: balance. "If a punter is balanced, he'll be accurate," says Father Fenton. Fenton strives for the accurate spiral that rolls for extra yardage, schools his punters to aim for coffin corner from as far out as 55 yds. A Fenton-trained kicker gauges the wind like an old salt, will boot low against it, high with...