Word: danseur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With his dance-tired feet stuffed into a pair of worn and obviously comfortable shoes, Rudolf Nureyev-perhaps the world's greatest danseur noble -accepted the annual Dance Magazine award in Manhattan. His speech was hardly audible, a sentence thanking the people who had helped him since he fled the U.S.S.R. During those twelve years in the West, Rudolf has performed mostly with the Royal Ballet, and is now touring with the National Ballet of Canada. Except for old friends like Dancer Erik Bruhn and Actress Monique Van Vooren, his life is a solo...
Edward Villella, L.H.D., premier danseur, New York City Ballet...
...What is there in the terminology of dance that implies a ballerina and a danseur noble must be white?" asks Arthur Mitchell. The answer is "Nothing." As living and moving proof there is the career of Mitchell himself, the first (and only) black soloist with George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. Now there is also the Harlem Dance Theater, founded by Mitchell scarcely two years...
...They work together as often as Nureyev and Fonteyn but could hardly be more different in style. For Nureyev's lynxlike power and dramatic presence, Dowell, who greatly resembles the Royal Danish Ballet's Erik Bruhn, substitutes the cool grace and the effortless movement of a danseur noble. Compared with Fonteyn's magical feminine magnetism, Sibley seems shy, vulnerable and distant. But she moves in such harmony with Dowell that they could be brother and sister, trained together from the cradle...