Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed Piston to be already an impeccable craftsmen. All three movements were skilfully wrought in traditional shapes of almost Mozartean clarity, albeit on a mainly contrapuntal basis. The performance, however, was no more than adequate; Mr. Grass was definitely not "The Incredible Flutist" about whom Piston once composed a ballet...
Arriving in Manhattan to dance the title role in NBC-TV's go-minute spectacular, Cinderella, Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), announced that on TV "you have to keep your mind skinned" because TV cameras are all over (and a stage audience is just out front). Though Dancer Fonteyn likes to perform on TV, she does not like to look at it: "Wastes too much time. It's paralyzing...
When wife Carmen, who was a solo dancer for the Metropolitan Opera ballet, became pregnant, Holder filled in for her, shook the house to its staid foundations when he appeared in a white bikini...
...registered for an all-women's course in modern dance. He was accepted, and by mid-semester was elected to Orchesis, the honorary dancing society. Leeper did his own choreography for the Orchesis show, in which he will wear a fluffy tutu (ballet costume) neatly ornamented by a tattooed Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, on his ham-sized left arm. So far, Leeper has managed to keep his head. Says he: "I'd still rather throw a block in football than throw one of the girls in the dance...
Marriage Revealed. Jed Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz), 57, box-jawed, brilliant, longtime Broadway director-producer (The Front Page, Our Town, The Crucible); and Beatrice ("Bebe") Allen. 29, lynx-eyed ballet dancer; he for the third time, she for the second; on April 1, in Las Vegas...