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Nine more days of phone calls and $114 later, MacArthur hung up and announced to all who would listen: "Trying to deal with the Government is like having a hippopotamus for a ballet partner." Finally he went to a local bank for his $30,000 and turned his attention to what he calls, as though the words were engraved in stone, The Project...
...popular Chinese dances-they put one pleasantly in mind of Radio City Music Hall choreography -are embedded in an evening in which an earnest soprano hymns the joys of revolutionary struggle, and musicians tootle and plink away on strange-sounding instruments. Nor does the dull excerpt from a revolutionary ballet showing a young woman abused by the minions of a wicked landowner particularly offend, though a little of this kind of thing goes a long way. Rather it is the air of detachment, abstraction that hangs over the evening and accounts for the restlessness the evening engenders...
Lecture/Demonstration: Dance Center lecture Series--Kirsten Ralov, Vice Director of the Royal Danish Ballet, on the Bournonville Technique. 2 p.m., Agassiz Living Room. Free...
DIED. Tamara Karsavina, 93, regal Russian ballerina who danced with the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky; in London. Karsavina first danced with the Maryinsky (now the Kirov) Ballet, then joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes for their first Paris season in 1909. A dancer of great beauty who made her every gesture expressive, she was often contrasted with her more classical colleague, Anna Pavlova. After the Russian Revolution she fled to England, where she became the country's best-loved dancer, appearing as a guest artist through the 1920s. She later worked with English Choreographer Frederick Ashton, advised Prima Ballerina...
Traveling to Europe two years after World War II was an adventure itself. Food was scarce, few rooms were heated, and even electricity was rationed. But Curtiss, who comes from a rich Boston family-her brother is Lincoln Kirstein, a founder and patron of the New York City Ballet-had all the advantages of money and connections. Establishing herself in the Paris Ritz, she made it her job to befriend Proust's friends and to beg or borrow those precious letters...