Word: ballets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rudolf Nureyev, 27, ballet's temperamental Tartar, ever heard of Jimmy Durante? "Nyet," muttered Rudi. They didn't get to know each other much better during the Hollywood taping of an ABC television special to be shown in October. "How about dat!" marveled proboscidiferous Durante, 72, as he watched Nureyev exercising for 40 minutes before his performance. "He takes all dat time to get ready to dance? Me-I start in cold." Fascinated, Jimmy whispered: "He's got awful long hair, too. Dat ain't a wig, is it? He's got a big nose...
...usual galaxy of aristocrats, film stars and jet set. The earnest and the merely cultured rapidly settled into the ritual of their daily rounds: breakfast at 10, a midday chamber concert, a five-o'clock poetry reading and then a play at the Seven O'Clock Theater. Ballet or opera was the choice of enchantments for the evening-Choreographer John Cranko's intensely dramatic Romeo and Juliet, the swirling color of Yugoslav folk dances, or Conductor Thomas Schippers' sonorous rendition of Verdi's Otello...
...ROYAL BALLET by Keith Money. 272 pages. World. $12.50. For six months Author Money recorded the leaps and pirouettes of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Nureyev and the other members of Britain's Royal Ballet. His several hundred photographs and sketches, many in color, fall a bit short of technical perfection. This is more than compensated for by the zest and understanding that went into their execution; before too long, Money knew the choreography as well as the dancers. His scenes of the company in the studio, the ballerinas in practice leotards and the heavy, woolen leggings worn for warmth, have...
...traveling papers and poetic license, took off for a month's poetry-recital tour of Italy. And who should he find in Rome but Ballerina Anastasia Stevens, 22, whom he met in 1962 while she was the only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made for Evgeny), doing a "slow twist" at the Club 84, and closing the swank Café de Paris...
George Balanchine, L.H.D., choreographer. Not least of his gifts is the first generation of American-born performers of ballet who mirror his restless austerity of discipline, his untrammeled precision of technique...