Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then it sounds like Lily Pons when she's kidding.'' But she also has a pair of long and memorable legs-"They start from the shoulders," says one admiring choreographer-and she can make them do anything she wants. She has the grace of a ballet dancer, the exuberance of a cheerleader and the muscle power of a baseball player; at various times she has been all three...
...couldn't control them," says Shirley. "I walked like a duck, so Mother sent me to ballet school to strengthen them. I loved the freedom of expression in movement. From the time I was three, I kept telling Mother, 'I want to be a little dancing gal.' " When Shirley was eleven, her parents moved from Richmond, where she was born, to Arlington. A good teacher in Washington, Julia Mildred Harper, became the reason "I don't have muscles in my legs like most dancers. If you do a little jump, your automatic reaction...
...Bolshoi's visit may yet prove to be the best thing that ever happened to U.S. dance-if only because it sharpens appreciation of the spirit of restless experimentation that animates a company like the New York City Ballet. Last week, before leaving New York, the Bolshoi company watched the City Ballet rehearse three works by George Balanchine (see below). The Russians applauded the U.S. group's discipline, but were clearly puzzled by a modern style alien to their own. At one point during Stravinsky's atonal Agon (1957), Ballerina Galina Ulanova unbelievingly recalled an earlier...
While the Bolshoi Ballet was finishing its New York run in Madison Square Garden last week (see above), the New York City Ballet was staging its season's first new work, providing a striking contrast with the Russians' old-fashioned choreography. The premiere: Episodes, a two-part work set to the symphonic pieces of Viennese Atonalist Anton Webern (1883-1945). Choreographers: two modern masters of the dance, George Balanchine and Martha Graham, who had never worked together before...
...Bechet was tooting his clarinet in the dives of Storyville, New Orleans' oldtime red-light district, over the years spread the lusty music of Dixieland up and down the land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor in the U.S., he won his greatest success in Europe, became the idol of Paris cafe jazz buffs, who named 40 or more children after him. High point...