Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STUFF. My father made everyone in our family take a musical instrument and go to lessons every day. I took piano lessons but I hated them. Finally, I convinced my father to let me take dance lessons at one of those schools where you get ballet, jazz, tap and baton twirling. Anyway, the dance school was really like a place for hyperactive young girls. I was pretty rambunctious...
...book published in 1982, Toni Bentley, a dancer for the New York City Ballet, made vivid the ecstasy and stress of working and living under George Balanchine's rule: it is a very direct and involving book--one which, Mallon suggests, helps Bentley "to find the way back to her art." Unfortunately, in the compiler's one-page synopsis that includes a few brief quotations, the force of this particular diary is all but lost and in a few awkward words the reader is abruptly shuttled across one of the many connecting bumps in Mallon's text and is confronted...
...sips a drink on the Boulevard du Montparnasse. In the four days since she arrived with a group of 35 students and teachers, she has done Chartres, the Loire valley chateaux, a champagne cellar near Reims, and the Eiffel Tower. Still ahead: the Louvre, Fontainebleau and a ballet...
According to producer Roberta Reeder, the cast is experimenting with methods of blending the athletic and the artistic. "Various kinds of movement, such as those of playing basketball, running and playing baseball will be juxtaposed with the forms of dance-modern and ballet," she says...
...production will also feature the musical work of composer Richard Lerman and Radcliffe pottery studio supervisor Nancy Selvage. The soundtrack includes traditional ballet music, electrically synthesized music, and recordings of athletic sounds, such as fencer's swords clinking...