Word: deux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the emphasis was inevitably on swirling group movements and splashy stage effects: clouds of smoke pouring over the footlights into the orchestra pit, Titania coming onstage with a magnificent retinue. There were also some deft characterizations and some fine bits of choreography: a fluent, elegant pas de deux between Conrad Ludlow and Violette Verdy, an elastically lyric solo by Edward Villella as Oberon, a wonderfully comic and closely knit dialogue of movement between Melissa Hayden as the Queen of the Fairies and Roland Vazquez as Bottom, wearing a donkey's head...
...days after his narrow escape from death, Charles de Gaulle went to Mass near his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. Then, on his way back to Paris, just like hundreds of other Frenchmen, he stopped to gawk at the site of the attempted assassination. Full of scorn for the bungled job, which police still attribute to the right-wing Secret Army Organization (S.A.O.), De Gaulle cracked: "You know, those birds of the S.A.O. are as stupid as the fellows who guard...
Three nights after the Kirov's debut, Sizova stopped the show again with Yuri Soloviev in a wildly exuberant pas de deux from Marius Petipa's Corsair, part of a program of excerpts that the troupe brought off with virtuosity and vigor...
...Bolshoi is flamboyant, dramatic and unabashedly fond of popular acclaim, the Kirov is precise, understated, a trifle aristocratic. The Bolshoi's prima ballerina may dash the length of the stage to leap into Prince Siegfried's arms with breathtaking drama in the Black Swan pas de deux of Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto, and the spectacular is always shunned for the stylistic. But as the visitors spin through...
...Algeria alone cannot win. The obvious conclusion: it will come to power only after De Gaulle is gone, exploiting the confusion caused by his departure. This leads some of them to wish to speed the day, and accounts for the increased security precautions in Paris and in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises...