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...some of them partly to satisfy the union. But he had 21 new dancers, picked more for their ability to "look and move well on the stage" than for their technique ("I can always teach them to dance"). For top polish, he had brought along Texas-born Ballerina Nana Gollner from Ballet Theatre...
...denied. Manhattan-born Nora Kaye had come out of the first corps de ballet to a position as the U.S.'s finest dramatic dancer; Illinois-born John Kriza had grown up from the line to become the company's most versatile star; Texas-born Nana Gollner was a fit and fleet classical partner for Russian-born Igor Youskevitch, who is perhaps the finest danseur noble afoot...
...director, conductor and choreographers, all trained in the Russian tradition. When the Ballet Theatre opens in Manhattan next month, its fine U.S. ballet, Billy the Kid, will be missing. Eugene Loring, who designed and danced in Billy, has left the Ballet Theatre. So has its beauteous Texas ballerina, Nana Gollner (now with the touring de Basil ballet). Sole native work will be Three Virgins and a Devil, by frizzy-haired Agnes George de Mille...
...Princetonian Richard Pleasant, secretary of the old Mordkin Ballet, the Ballet Theatre has had many backers including Dancer Lucia Chase, widow of President Thomas Ewing Jr. of big Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co. Among the ballerinas, best are Philadelphia-born Karen Konrad and beauteous 22-year-old Texan Nana Gollner...
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