Word: fonteyne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choreographers. For the Royal Ballet, the performance was the high point of its first two weeks in New York (the start of a four-month U.S. tour). For New York ballet buffs, it was a sample of more to come. This week Royal Ballet Stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn make their first appearances of the season; and next week the American Ballet Theater will arrive for a month with its new, widely heralded, full-length Swan Lake...
...eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...
Fluid Drive. If the story line was somewhat benumbing, the dancing was dashing and vigorous. The audience, which included Princess Margaret and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, was obviously enthralled. Nureyev's dancing was all primal passion, Fonteyn's all youthful savage grace. Petit's choreography had the clean, square-cut lines and angles of an abstract painting and included some wild acrobatics. At one point, Nureyev executed somersaults while with one hand supporting Fonteyn as she turned in arabesque...
...music, composed by Modernist Marius Constant, did not even allow them the luxury of discernible rhythms, sometimes consisted only of randomly twanging gongs and thumping drums. It was at times like a dance performed to the sound effects of a shoot-'em-up western. But Nureyev and Fonteyn conquered the unfamiliar idiom, emphasizing in new and exquisite ways the fluid drive and rhythmic power of their artistry...
...most celebrated candidate in Panama's 1964 congressional elections was a dashing aristocrat named Roberto ("Tito") Arias. Part of his glory was admittedly reflected: both his father and an uncle had been Presidents of Panama, and his wife was Britain's foremost ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn. But Tito Arias could claim his own marks as well. Twice (when his family or friends were in power) he had been his country's Ambassador to London. Twice (when opposition families were in power) he had led spectacular, quixotic plots to overthrow the government, the last time in 1959 when...