Word: ballon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full Advanced Standing program at Radcliffe, as well as at Harvard, will start next fall in three parts: advanced placement, sophomore standing, and early admission. A committee consisting of Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, Miss Constance Ballon, Director of Admissions, and Mrs. Elliott will decide which girls will be admitted to these programs...
...press would have liked to withhold judgment until it saw a more dignified number, but got caught up in the enthusiasm. "Rabovsky," wrote the Times critic, "had a ballon [ballet talk for the ability to remain in the air during jumps] that would have ensured any rubber ball a five years' guarantee." Said the Manchester Guardian: "They danced with a brilliance and a vitality [that] can be equaled by no dancer in the Western world...
Once in the Kingdom of Sweets, nevertheless, the corps dances with brilliance and precision. Elaine Fi-field as the Sugar Plum Fairy has beautiful poise, and the Nutcracker Prince, David Blair, performs his ballon impressively. The divertissements--Chocolate from Spain, Tea from China, and Nougat from Russia were marvelous caricatures...
...Ballon," says The Dance Encyclopedia, is "the ability [of a dancer] to remain in the air for a length of time." To Nijinsky, that was a simple matter: "You have just to go up and pause there a little." But the Paris Opera Ballet's Choreographer Serge Lifar has a more modern solution...
...were about to land a very hot jet job on a jeep carrier's flight deck, Lifar climbed up on a little box and stared hard at three helicopters parked near him. Then he stretched his arms straight out from his shoulders, and his study in ballon-with motorized ballerinas...