Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some like their ballet new, lean and glinting; they favor the New York City Ballet. Some like it pageantesque, formal and applauseworthy; they favor London's Sadler's Wells. Some like it storyful, mellow and magical; they had almost no place to turn except Copenhagen, where the Royal Danish Ballet spun comfortably on its 200-year-old tradition, rarely ventured into the outside world (TIME, Aug. 31, 1953). But last week the Danes were in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, and provided crowds with something to cherish for years to come...
Green Seaweed. Choreographer Bournonville's other big ballet of the week, Napoli, was only a few years younger (1842), had even more pantomime as well as one long actful of leaps and turns. It also contained a memorable little piece of stage magic that delighted New York City audiences as if they were children at their first puppet show. When Teresina (Kirsten Ralov) is turned into a naiad, she kneels in a pink gown, then suddenly stands up dressed in green seaweed. Later, with as little fanfare and in full view, she suddenly switches back to pink...
There is less magic in the minor fare offered by the Royal Danes-Graduation Ball is even more giddy than Ballet Theater's version; Dream Pictures is a pointless period piece that does, however, include a hilarious dance by three doddering octogenarian couples. While it is at the Met, the company will offer the first U.S. performances of Romeo and Juliet, with the Prokofiev score and new choreography by Frederick Ashton. Then it will visit ten cities in the eastern U.S. and Canada to give more Americans a chance to see ballet storyful, mellow and magical...
...made an exciting and surprisingly fast-paced spectacle out of the opera, and at the end even succeeds in inserting a plug for the People's Republic as, "Ever rising, ever spreading, grows the people's might." While the movie is advertised as featuring the chorus, orchestra, and ballet of the Bolshoi Opera Theatre, the ballet seems to have disappeared from this version. But Moussorgsky's music, drawn mostly from Russian folk songs, is exciting and plentiful. The color, too, is excellent--not like the red and blue "technicolor" of older Russian films. There is another Soviet film...
...Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace and Sol Hurok...