Word: danilova
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of Colonel Wassily de Basil; notably present was the familiar trademark of Concert Manager Sol Hurok. Long-nosed Léonide Massine was still choreographer, still danced with his wonted spirit. But of the Ballet's four familiar prima ballerinas-Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Alexandra Danilova and Tamara Toumanova-the first two were missing. In their places were two newly acquired slim-limbed bids for U.S. favor: diminutive, British-born Alicia Markova (Alice Marks), and Nini Theilade (pronounced Tay-lah'-de), an exotic, Javanese-born tripper of mixed Danish, Polish, German and Hindu extraction...
...organization of the World-Art group with backing ($500,000) by Fleischmann, Harold F. McCormick and other Midwest socialites. De Basil lost not only his principal working choreographer (Massine) to the new group, now named The New Ballet Russe, but long-legged Ballerinas Tamara Toumanova and Alexandra Danilova, and the aegis of crafty Concert Manager Sol Hurok as well...
...Beau Danube, the slim bluebird and her lightly-leaping partner in Aurora's Wedding-these favorite characters of U. S. ballet fans were once more on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. They were personified by Paul Petroff, Léonide Massine, Alexandra Danilova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, starting a six-month U. S. tour. Balletomanes were pleasantly surprised to find Massine still a member of the troupe. Successful Impresario Wassily de Basil (whose last two U. S. tours grossed more than $1,000,000 each...
...greatest success. The youthful company has worked hard to interpret them faithfully, boasts several leading dancers who have conspicuous talent. From the Diaghilev company came Léonide Massine, the galvanic maître de ballet whose dancing is marvelously fleet and polished. Another Diaghilev dancer is Alexandra Danilova, a piquant ballerina trained in Petrograd's Theatre Street. Beau Brummel of the company is black-haired David Lichine, whose leaps have excited the admiration of Harvard track stars...
...Nijinsky is mad, cloistered in a Swiss sanatorium. Now Diaghilev is dead, his company disbanded. For its so-called successor, the popular Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Author Kirstein has limited respect. He freely grants talent to its maitre de ballet, Leonide Massine, to Ballerinas Alexandra Danilova, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova. But his hope is centred on the new American Ballet, engaged this season for the first time to supply dancing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...