Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been more crowded. At the Louvre, tourists lined up in long, patient queues to stare at the Victory of Samothrace and the Mona Lisa. Around the Place de la Concorde, traffic whirled wildly as ever, but the license plates on the cars were predominantly Swiss, Italian, German, British, Danish, Dutch and U.S. The chattering voices in the cafes were British, American, Belgian, German-but not French. The locals had left the city to the invaders. In August, France is "en vacances." The Lemmings. In France in August, whole industries (automobiles, steel) shut down, whole streets are shuttered, in a migration...
...special home-Jacob's Pillow, in the Berkshires near Lee, Mass., where he turned a weed-grown farm into the hub and Mecca of dancing in North America. Shawn introduced what he called "the apex of our achievement in presenting dancers at Jacob's Pillow," the Royal Danish Ballet. Then the Danes took over and proved...
Success Without Ice. The Danes, who rarely venture far from Copenhagen, have a distinct style of their own. Its originator was the great Danish choreographer, August Bournonville (1805-1879), and a dash of Bournonville was what the balletasters came to Jacob's Pillow for. In two pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). From the Royal Danish Festival in Copenhagen, excerpts from Han del's oratorio, Saul...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m. CBS). From the Royal Danish Festival in Copenhagen, with the Danish State Radio Orchestra and Copenhagen Boys Choir...