Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being the husband of a stripteaser. The son of a Madrid jeweler, Julio (pronounced "Hoolio'' even in Manhattan) left home at the age of 15, when his father objected to his artistic bent. He painted scenery for the Madrid opera, danced in Serge Diaghilev's ballet, went into the Spanish army to fight the Rifs in Africa. In 1923 De Diego set out to see the world. After his defiant gesture atop the Woolworth Building he got a job doing fashion illustrations, painted murals for kitchens and bathrooms, designed menus...
Across Europe in the wake of the New York City Ballet's tours, the word has gone that here, at last, is the "American" style. Ever modest George Balanchine, unwilling to call his style anything, attributes its special qualities to the dancers themselves. He never hesitates to pick up a gesture that comes from one of them. Once, recently, his uninhibited cast jokingly picked up a new step before he was through demonstrating it, made it look like a baseball pitch. He put it into the ballet...
...school itself was the nucleus of three earlier companies (American Ballet, Ballet Caravan, Ballet Society) before the present company achieved success. Today, more European cities than U.S. cities have seen the New York City troupe. But after last summer's visit, Los Angeles is bidding to bring the company back for six weeks instead of four this year, and San Francisco wants three. Manhattan...
...Balanchine version of the old story-telling Nutcracker, with music by Tchaikovsky, sugarplum fairies, and a Christmas tree as big as Balanchine can fit on to the stage. The Nutcracker will take a full evening, and provide 35 children's roles for youngsters of Balanchine's ballet school. Central theme of Nutcracker: food...
Leslie Stevens' Bullfight proved to be a colorful splash of fiery vignettes, effectively backed by clever lighting, a ballet-drilled cast, exotic . costumes, and an ominous musical background of Spanish guitars. The story concerns two brothers of a proud Mexican family-one an eager young beginner in the bull ring, the other a has-been turned thug and procurer. A victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring...