Word: erik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company was playing to capacity crowds, while the waiting line for standing room coiled around the block. To the north, aficionados flocked to the spring rites as celebrated by Martha Graham and her dance company. But most excitement focused around Denmark's Erik Bruhn, a handsome, blond, well-muscled performer for the American Ballet Theater who not only has the best profile since Barrymore's but may just be the finest classical male dancer now before the public...
Technique Is Not Enough. The Ballet Theater has fallen off from its earlier, more sparkling days, but any shoddiness in its corps or weakness in the orchestra was forgotten on opening night in the performances of Erik Bruhn and Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief. Appearing in the lead roles in Miss Julie, based on the theme of Strindberg's chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with...
...vanity that goads most performers; he does not want audiences to pay, he says, "only to see me jump." Furthermore, he would rather "be bad in a good ballet than be great in a bad ballet." But to be great in a good ballet? To do it, says Erik Bruhn, "it is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen...
...example is the senior-year aerodynamics course taught by Associate Professor Erik Mollö-Christensen. First, Mollö-Christensen holds a lottery, and the number each student draws corresponds to something in the lab-a piece of wire, a piece of plastic tubing or of plywood. Working in pairs, the students are required to determine the modulus of elasticity of the material they drew. Two students, working with a piece of brass, determined its elasticity by measuring the speed at which sound passed along it. Explains Mollö-Christensen: "They can do it any way they want to-so long...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jose Iturbi, Renata Tebaldi and Shirley Jones, with Dancers Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn. Color...