Word: ballets
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...midnight the Nutcracker suddenly springs alive and the two sail through a corps de ballet of whirring snowflake, Sugar Plum Fairies, Candy Flowers and other whimsies of the Nutcracker Suite...
...Nutcracker Suite is to Christmas as fireworks are to the Fourth of July, and this Christmas nearly a half million people will see Tchaikovsky's classic ballet. Last weekend the Boston Ballet, supported by guest stars from Ballanchine's New York City Ballet, gave three performances. Despite its popularity, the derogatory comments heaped on the ballet at its first performance in St. Petersburg in 1892 are still true. The music though lyrical, is Tchaikovsky at his most saccharine; the choreoraphy of Pea, the Russian master, and his assistant Ivanov, allows a lot of room for horseplay and very little...
...newspapers, a black-clad hag buzzed around on a scooter and recited folk poems. Men and women frugged wildly to rock-'n'-roll music, imitated coitus to electronic pings and a soft-voiced reading of the Song of Songs, staged a mock war between classical and modern ballet, and ended looking up expectantly while the noise of jet engines screamed overhead. Then, during ten minutes of bravos from the audience, they all slowly, slowly walked offstage into the wings...
...have hurled back boatloads of troops trying to cross the Niger River after them. One big government ferry got stuck on a sandbar in midpassage; while searchlights lit it up, Biafran guns splintered it, and hundreds of men drowned. Elsewhere, the war has become a kind of ballet, with bands of roving soldiers often straying back and forth across each other's lines for inconclusive skirmishes...
...Stoney was originally a professional ballet dancer. She gave up performing because of what she felt was a lack of communication between the dancer and the audience. After college and graduate school in painting and art history, she began studying modern dance...