Word: guerard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of brilliance and vivacity by piecing out simple footwork with deft body movements, well-timed claps and stomps. But where the De Basil ballet is short on men-its best is David Lichine, choreographer as well as dancer-the massine troupe has four of the best: Roland Guerard of Flat Rock, N.C. one of the first U.S.-born Ballet Russers who was allowed to dance under his own name; Frederic Franklin, exuberant British onetime hoofer; and two genuine Russians, Igor Youskevitch and Andre Eglevsky. These dancers perform capably the difficult leaps, entrechats (crossing of the feet in midair) tours...