Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edinburgh's famed International Festival of Music and Drama opened for its 21-day run last week with a schedule of no less than 170 events by eight orchestras seven choruses, six chamber orchestras' and quartets, one ballet, one opera and five dramatic companies. First week's highlight was the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of Firebird, starring brilliant Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, who in the title role seemed as quick as an imp out ot hell, as fluttery as a butterfly...
...Thomas gave some American readers pause when he plumped for wrestling as his favorite television fare. Seemingly unaware that U.S. wrestling is as well rehearsed as a Sadler's Wells ballet, Sir Thomas rhapsodied: "I know of little more virile and exciting than the sight of one gentleman weighing about 17 stone-picking up another of similar avoirdupois and throwing him over his head with as much facility and address as if he were handling bales of cotton or sacks of coal. I enjoyed other truly masculine and adult exhibitions of a similar sort which find place rarely...
...over at 60. Last week the fact was emphasized again by two elderly ladies who kicked up their heels with the enthusiasm of dancers a third their age. ¶ In the Hollywood Bowl Ruth St. Denis, grandmother of the modern dance, unveiled her first new production since 1934, The Ballet of Light, set to Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy. Surrounded by nine young men and women in short, Romanesque costumes, "Miss Ruth," 74, impersonated the spirit of light, moving majestically in yards of billowing silk, her hands articulate, her youthful-looking neck arched attractively, showing her years only when...
...mechanized people of the court. Preparing for the crucial song contest in the second act-usually staged with casual confusion-uniformly dressed men and women march into the hall in stiff military style. But the orgiastic Venusberg scene, set in flowing concentric circles of light, is heavily sensual: the ballet flings itself into bumps and grinds that rival the old Minsky...
...photography is first-class in a murkily introspective way, and the ballerina (Sybil Werden), the druggist (O. W. Fischer) and his wife (Heidemarie Hatheyer) are steadily excellent. There is some quiet kidding of second-string ballet companies, and a thrilling, light-splashed rush through the country in a carriage. But all too often the moviegoer is deafened by the tinkling symbols (e.g., spiders to signify evil thoughts, scales to balance vice and virtue) that clamor in the background...