Word: danilovas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Colonel Vasily de Basil, 63, onetime Czarist Cossack cavalryman, who in 1932 founded the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with the largest segment of the late Impresario Diaghilev's disbanded Ballet Russe; of a heart attack; in Paris. With such dancers as Danilova, Toumanova and Lichine he made the company popular and temporarily profitable (at least two of his U.S. tours grossed as high as $1,000,000 each...
...them: Dancer-Actress Tamara Geva, who became his first wife; Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, who became his second. Subsequent wives: Berlin-born Dancer Vera Zorina, from whom he was divorced in 1946, Oklahoma-born Ballerina Maria Tallchief, part Osage Indian, from whom he separated last month...
...abstract grace of "Swan Lake" requires faultless dancing to be truly successful. Its movements are classically simple, and the chaste costumes and Tschaikowsky's subdued music offer little distraction. Alexandra Danilova, as the swan queen, unfortunately, lacks some of the effortless, completely-controlled action that is demanded of her. Mlle. Danilova's dancer, Frederic Franklin, is also occasionally ungainly. The corps de ballet proves to be technically capable, although not distinguished...
...ballet more suited to this group is "The Nutcracker." Formal rigidity is not stressed in most of this work; animation and perhaps "prettiness" takes its place. In the part of the Snow Queen, Ruthanna Boris shows herself in many ways superior to Mlle. Danilova. She is more proficient technically, and far less tense. It is evident that she feels what she is dancing, not merely performing what she has learned. Leon Danielian, the Prince, dances with a great deal of case and sureness. Robert Lindgen, although in the subordinate role of Trepak, deserves praise for his crisp performance...
...Among others, Danilova, Toumanova, Baronova and the late great Pavlova have done all right in ballet, though married...