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...Once I was a devoted fan of the New York City Ballet, but I have attended few performances in past years. Your article unconsciously explains...
George Balanchine has drained ballet of all its theatricalism and has left us with a series of impersonal ballet exercises and pseudo-acrobatic routines danced by equally impersonal technicians. Nowhere in your article does Mr. Balanchine or your writer give any hope for the sadly lacking male segment of the company...
Music Tent. Chagall kept flower arrangements near him while he worked, and his design soon took on the shape of petals, which blossomed into a dreamlike homage to opera and ballet. His favorite composer, Mozart, occupies half of the big blue gore with angelic nudes and a bird playing The Magic Flute; Chagallic vignettes of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov fill the rest of the blue space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird...
...Queen Fabiola. For French Choreographer Maurice Béjart, 37, the royal welcome was sweet relief from the catcalls, fistfights and lawsuits that have swirled in the wake of his iconoclastic creations of the last few years. Last week's premiere was his most ambitious production yet: a ballet to the music of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...expatriate paradise of Europe. There, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, the Murphys became "masters in the art of living." Since the wine and the wit were always right, Stravinsky came to dinner, Léger showed them Paris night life, and Diaghilev invited them to his ballet...