Word: deux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Ballet Theater's production of Aleko. Critic Emily Genauer recalls walking in on the two while they were trying to explore the project. Tchaikovsky's trumpets blared over a record player, while Massine dragged Chagall around the room in an unbelievable pas de deux,. Yet somehow the collaboration worked. The premiere, which took place in Mexico in 1942, was a smash success...
...monkey at the Malay Archipelago-Go. There's a Santo Domingo-Go, a San Diego-Go, and a Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long, Long Ago-Go. But the most popular of all is a Jewish discothèque in The Bronx called the Let My People...
Dart & Dash. Choreographer MacMillan, striving to project the psychological motivation of the star-crossed lovers, leans more on drama than dance. Beyond a lovely pas de deux in the first act, Nureyev and Fonteyn had little chance to display their glittering technique, so involved were they in acting out the complexities of the plot. Nureyev, despite a wig that looked like a wet dishrag, was a compelling and thoroughly convincing hero. Free of exaggeration, he masterfully portrayed Romeo as a roustabout turned rapt lover. The evening, however, belonged to Fonteyn. Though 45, she was every inch the teenage Juliet, brimming...
...gross incompatibility and lack of harmony in your pas de deux (cover and coverage) starring the great Nureyev [April 16]! In your marvelous coverage, Rudi is a colorful, vibrant and electrifying creature. Sidney Nolan's Rudi, however, is about as exciting as a dish of cold oatmeal...
...peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute for $155,000 (v. $101,000). When Degas' Repetition de Ballet, a pastel and gouache painting considered the high point of the evening, came up on the block, it was greeted like a masterful pas de deux. The winning bidder, Dealer Stephen Hahn, did not even make a move until the price was $360-000, then calmly kept the pressure up until he had it for an unknown client at the record price...