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...seamstresses attacked a stack of white tutus: the ballerinas had danced so hard for so long that their costumes no longer fitted them. Then the lights went down in George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, and Washington got its first glimpse last week of the National Ballet Company-the city's first professional resident troupe...
...young dancers looked their eager best in Hommage an Ballet, choreographed by the company's director, former Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Premier Danseur Frederic Franklin. In their premiere of Early Voyagers, a new work by Valerie Bettis (A Streetcar Named Desire), the dancers deserved more praise than the ballet, and a packed house rewarded them with 13 curtain calls...
...clear that the dancers were ready for Washington, but was Washington ready for the dancers? The city already had an amateur company,* and the issue of whether professionals were needed or wanted had boiled for months in the Washington Ballet Guild. Finally, Franklin and Guild Founder Mrs. Richard J. Riddell withdrew from the Guild to start their own group in July 1961. Encouraged by the support of Dance Master George Balanchine (who charged Franklin with carrying on in Washington "what I started in New York") and Mrs. Riddell's money (she blessed the first season with nearly...
...high time for ballet in Washington," Franklin says. "We're going to become a truly resident ballet by taking a part in civic affairs. It's an uphill fight in a town that has not been exposed to much ballet, but we'll just have to push the citizens along a little. Why not? I think they're ready to be pushed...
...Girdle Needed. Once the uniform of ballet dancers (who wore the real, torso-covering thing), leotards were snatched from behind the practice barre, called tights, and put in department-store windows some five years ago. They were first shown under tartan skirts for college girls, and bought not as particularly proper but as overwhelmingly practical. No girdle or garter belt was needed, and no longer were knees, neglected between the long socks' end and the slip's beginning, left bare to redden in the cold; slips, in fact, might be completely forgotten, too, as the long tights were...