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Before World War II, only about 300 girls in Manila studied ballet, but during the postwar years, the visits of topnotch foreign dancers-Alicia Markova, Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin et al.-have upped enrollment in ballet schools to approximately...
Balanchine well remembers the Baltic steamer ride from Russia. Many passengers were seasick, and the hungry dancers, who included Tamara Geva and Alexandra Danilova, had plenty of food for the first time in years. "I think maybe we were seasick too," says Balanchine, "but we ate anyway." The ballet world remembers the trip because it was part of ballet's great westward movement. Like many other Russian tourists in those days, Balanchine & Co. finally got a telegram: return at once or be punished. Says Balanchine: "If we went back, we would be punished anyhow-no food." He never went...
...troupe also boasted several standard tiptoeing ballets, as well as famed Ballerina Alexandra Danilova as guest star. But Streetcar, composed by Modern Dancer Valerie Bettis, was clearly the breadwinner. The management sagely scheduled it for every performance except the first children's matinee. Midway in their one-week stand, Slavenska, Franklin & Co. decided to extend their run into January, then take Streetcar back on the road...
...Ballet Russe, in town for its one week curtsey to the cultural center of the world, opened Monday with three old standbys and an extra Pas de Deux thrown in for kicks. It was a nice gesture, but it didn't make up for the loss of ballerinas of Danilova's calibre...
...first number, four little elves, one after another, suddenly threw their feet in the air and smacked the floor, as though a giant hand had pulled the stage from under them. In Galté Parisienne, even the great Alexandra Danilova and' Choreographer-Dancer Leonide Massine went down: two spills for Danilova, one for Massine. In the wings, frantic Ballet Master Frederic Franklin told his dancers: "Go slow . . . Don't listen to the music, just go on when I tell you." The critic of the Detroit Times described the usually bouncy exits as like "the pussyfooting lope one takes...