Word: dancer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were all on hand last week-the critics and choreographers, the dancers, designers and devoted fans-to greet the tiny woman with the haunting eyes and the New England Gothic face. After three years, partly spent touring abroad. Dancer Martha Graham had returned with her ballet company to perform in Manhattan, bringing with her a satchelful of Graham favorites and two new works: a sophisticated sexual romp called Embattled Garden and an evening-length ballet titled Clytemnestra, the most ambitious effort in years by the priestess of modern dance...
...unhurried, severely ritualistic style that became occasionally monotonous in the long preludes to violence. But the economy of movement also produced fascinating effects, such as the shuttling plotters' dance in Act II, with Agamemnon's ghost in platform shoes tottering over them like a crippled bird. Throughout, Dancer Graham's movements of whiplike vitality and agonized angularities brought to life the rage in Clytemnestra's mind...
Mirrored Épée. After the performance, Dancer Lifar tossed his black locks in indignation, declared that he was challenging Cuevas to a duel. "Out of respect for his great age," he would allow the marquis the choice of weapons. The marquis answered. "I wish I could choose the whip, to give him a good drubbing," but decided on the more conventional...
Heading the list is the legendary Galina Ulanova, who at 47 has slowed down to an average of three ballets a month, but whose free-flowing line and effortless technique are still unmatched by any other dancer in the company. Ready to replace her are Maya Plisetskaya, 31, with her forceful, passionate style and broad, floating leaps; Raissa Struchkova, also 31, whose style in such a work as The Fountain of Bakhchisarai is warmly brilliant rather than deeply emotional; Marina Kondratieva, a rising star at 23, whose lightness and lyrical qualities make her a notable Cinderella...
Some 550 ladies slogged through Washington, D.C.'s record snowfall (14 in.) to a luncheon where Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the Senate majority leader, got a "Togetherness Award," presented to her by pert Dancer Marge Champion. Lurking together in the background were the affair's cosponsors, McCall's magazine and the Hecht Co., the capital's big department-store chain. Among other women honored for exemplifying "togetherness" (defined by McCall's Editor and Publisher Otis Wiese as "our greatest natural resource"): Adele Rogers, wife of the Attorney General; Author Bonaro W. (Understanding Fear...