Word: ballets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moon goddess, writhes in passionate triumph over the spent form of the mortal who seduced her. The action is bathed in lights and film images that glide, collide and dissolve in a psychedelic pattern to the crash of rock rhythms. This ascendant moment in Robert Joffrey's ballet Astarte appears on the cover of this issue almost exactly as it is seen by audiences. To capture the moment, Photographer Herbert Migdoll photographed the dancers, Trinette Singleton and Maximiliano Zo-mosa, during a performance. Then at another performance, with a telephoto lens, he made the closeup of Miss Singleton...
...worked on the cover story, Writer Ray Kennedy recalled his own fling at ballet. As an art student some years ago, Ray was in Cincinnati sketching a ballet from backstage when he was asked to serve as an extra-to walk across stage followed by five other striplings all adorned with helmets, spears and quaint buckled shoes. When the big moment came and he strode boldly forward, his feet got snarled in electrical cables and he tripped over the footlights almost into the lap of Senator Robert A. Taft. Hoisting himself back onstage, he tried to recover his fallen armor...
Researcher Mary Cronin, whose childhood experience with dance was limited to ballet lessons, revisited for this story many choreographers and dancers whom she had met five years ago while working on a Rockefeller Fund project examining economic problems of the performing arts. After nearly a month of ballet going, she was inflicted with a recurring dream in which she was forced to dance in slippers far too large before a vast audience. The reality that Mary and the rest of our troupe found in American ballet makes a revealing story of new, inventive, uninhibited spirit...
...ballet. Gossamer goddesses tippy-toeing through the glades. Princes bounding about like young stallions. And then, after a twitter of arabesques, the embrace. Ecstasy...
...nuts, says Choreographer Robert Joffrey. "I look upon ballet as total theater. I want to attack all the senses. I want my dancers to express my thing, the now thing, good or bad." Performing at Manhattan's City Center last week, the Joffrey Ballet nightly gave eye-dazzling testimony to that credo...