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Ostlere, meanwhile, set out to learn what the old ragtime dances were like. In a Harlem retirement home, she found 89-year-old Ida Forsyne Hubbard, a popular dancer at the turn of the century who had known Joplin and performed to his music. With Jones at,.the piano and Ostlere on the boards, the old trouper instructed both in the rhythm and techniques of ragtime. Says Jones: "She conducted me, forced me to play it as she remembered Joplin. With a nod and her voice, she taught me what Joplin himself sounded like." She also taught Ostlere dances like...
...1920s as the nation's top modern dance team, their repertory drawing heavily on American and ethnic themes. They also formed the Denishawn schools, which trained Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and other stars. The schools folded when the couple separated in 1931. After that Shawn attacked the male dancer's lavender image by selecting college athletes for an all-male dance troupe that toured the country under his direction. He later staged the annual dance festival at Jacob's Pillow near Lee, Mass...
Before World War I, Chevalier was a partner-and lover-of the famed cabaret singer and dancer Mistinguett. Later he went on to star alone at the Folies-Bergère and the Casino de Paris. In the late '20s and early '30s he became a very highly paid American movie idol. Even Greta Garbo, for a fleeting moment, once felt that it might be nice to be with him. "Do you know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then...
Rebirth Theme. Then the action subsided, the bathers put on modest white gowns and the central event came into focus: the baptism of three new members of the congregation-a Jewish student in his 20s, a young woman dancer and a three-year-old black-and-Puerto Rican boy adopted by a white family. As incense billowed up toward the rafters, the Rev. Eugene Monick, 42, intoned: "Do you renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world . . . and the sinful desires of the flesh . . . ?" Then he cupped water onto the forehead of each...
...inspirer of such love-hate feelings has long gray locks, chubby pink cheeks and an apple shaped figure. A onetime sailor, onetime ballet dancer, Russell now looks, at 44, rather like an amiable monk. On a set, though, the monk turns into Rasputin, roaring, stamping his feet, cracking a riding whip on the floor. Whole scenes, including choreography, are often invented after the cameras begin turning. "Instant creation," Russell calls it, beaming...