Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although some budget trims seemed obviously aimed at the middle class, such as cuts in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts ("We're trading ballet for bombs," said William Murphy, former director of the United Performing Arts Fund of Milwaukee), other reductions would hurt both lower- and middle-income families. One example: the President's budget seeks to rein in Medicare, which after Social Security is the Government's largest and fastest-growing entitlement program. By freezing reimbursements to doctors and hospitals at their present levels, the President would cut some $5 billion from projected 1986 costs. Such...
MODERN DANCE companies are interesting because they need not stick to any formal rules or balletic norms; they have free reign with creativity. Sometimes this freedom simply leads to failure in overly amorphous, experimental works. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the country's leading modern dance companies, reaches modern dance companies, reaches the ultimate balance between these two extremes of stifling fidelity to convention and unrestrained experimentation. Their pieces reflect an incredible combination of ballet structures and modern dance innovation, exhilaration and subdued strength. Wednesday night's performance displayed all the finest aspect of this unique ensemble...
...encore repeating the last dance. The audience began clapping to the music, humming the tunes; needless to say this is not a common sight at dance performances. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has reached a new level in this art' they have combined old and new forms, ballet technique and modern jazz with an ability to evoke intense levels of sincere emotion. Wednesday night's performance was a real treat...
...ballet section, in particular, suffers from excessive talk, despite rare footage of the legendary Isadora Duncan and a brief clip of Rudolf Nuryev dancing with Margot Fonteyn. Presumably this is because ballet requires more explanation for today's audiences...
...that score, That's Dancing will not advance the art of ballet in the United States, but that's not why MGM produced this film: they're making a buck off their past. And it's not a bad past. True, the very best moments of American dance are already in That's Entertainment, but the films between 1935 and 1955 are an almost endless gold mine; That's Dancing is still a rich yield...