Word: danseur
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...Devil his due, he is a flashy dresser-if one can believe the folklore of the Quebec villages along the lower St. Lawrence. Some of the villagers are sure, as their ancestors were before them, that they have met the Devil socially. To them he is le Beau Danseur-the Handsome Dancer...
...wrote: "From the muffled whispers in the row behind me, I gathered that four elderly ladies, sitting together, were experts on the whole performance. They chatted knowingly about Ninette de Valois' discovery of Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, discussed the merits of Karsavina, Pavlova, Markova, noted the fact that Danseur Michael Somes had spent four years in the British army during the war. During the intermission, I turned round, curious to see these well-informed critics. They looked as if they might have been schoolteachers, and they were huddled over a red-bordered magazine. It was TIME...
...position as the U.S.'s finest dramatic dancer; Illinois-born John Kriza had grown up from the line to become the company's most versatile star; Texas-born Nana Gollner was a fit and fleet classical partner for Russian-born Igor Youskevitch, who is perhaps the finest danseur noble afoot...
...masculine side the company was weaker. At 40, Choreographer-Dancer Robert Helpmann seemed past his prime as a soloist-although as a danseur noble he showed off the sparkling Fonteyn like a diamond ring. Handsome Michael Somes, 32, had had his career interrupted by four years in the British army during...
...best act. As Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll...