Word: entrechat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earthbound Nijinsky who can entrechat her way across a stage in half-inch leaps. Footwork is needlework to Bea-she crochets with her toes. If playgoers dare to laugh at her outlandishly comic bits of business, she freezes upon them the look of an embalmed codfish until they burst out laughing all over again. Her costumes are designed by the Mad Hatter...
...Park's Delacorte Theater in New York by the British troupe, which has been making its official U.S. debut at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival in Lee, Mass. This is a casual group that sometimes seems more inclined to do a cha cha cha than an entrechat. Rather like the American Ballet Theater, the Western Theater company wants to avoid dance in the abstract and stress the psychology of personal relationships and straight storytelling. Artistic Director Peter Darrell's hyperkinetic choreography accents every musical bar and beat with vigorous leg, hand and head movements, creating...
Chance to Dance. But is it a great ballet? The steps are modern and functional, with never a tour jeté, never an entrechat or a grand fouetté. Manhattan first-nighters, who sat through its half-hour length with scarcely a rippling interruption of applause, demanded 16 curtain calls, with Jacqueline Kennedy clapping energetically enough for two. Nureyev's magnetic personality demands an audience's attention. In Swan Lake, he disclosed some of his enormous technical facility, and in Marguerite, with less chance to dance, he demonstrated that he can also act. But so much...