Word: genzano
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...last year. The general manager once pushed a button to speak to his secretary. Within minutes, the director of housekeeping popped in to tell him his conversation was being broadcast to every room on the fifth floor. But guests report that the system is working fine now. Says John Genzano, a Philadelphia computer programmer, who was honeymooning last week at the hotel: "This is the neatest thing in the world. Everything you need runs from the telephone...
...Company, Nureyev has programmed an ambitious mix of diverse styles ranging from demi-pointe to barefoot. Not the least of the challenges are the rapid-fire transformations from Balanchine's neoclassical Apollo to the romantic rustic in Bournonville's pas de deux from the Flower Festival in Genzano and, eventually, into the crazed moor of Limon's The Moor's Pavane...
...largest (1,500,000 members) Communist Party in the West, took advantage of Italy's new divorce law to make an honest comrade of his longtime mistress Bruna Conti, 58. Their 17-year-old son Egidio was present at the ceremony, performed by the Communist mayor of Genzano. So were two other sons by his previous wife Teresa Noce, who fought beside him in the Spanish Civil War and served the party in Italy, Spain and France. Though Longo had not lived with her since he spotted Bruna in the Union of Italian Women a couple of decades...
...Respect. Nureyev ignores his critics, though he realizes that he still has much to learn-and many observers agree with him. In bravura numbers-such as the pas de deux from Le Corsaire or from Bournonville's The Flower Festival of Genzano-his technique is often insecure. Nureyev himself points out that Yuri Soloviev of the Kirov Ballet is a far more polished performer. But what remains undisputed is that no dancer has greater natural gifts than Nureyev, or a more tempestuous temperament...
...style of their own. Its originator was the great Danish choreographer, August Bournonville (1805-1879), and a dash of Bournonville was what the balletasters came to Jacob's Pillow for. In two pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed in 1896 by Danish Hans Beck after the French ballet-master, Saint...