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...night last week, Sadler's Wells Star Margot Fonteyn ceased to be a ballerina and became the bird she intended to portray. The ballet: Firebird, dreamed up in 1910 for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by the late, style-making Choreographer Michel Fokine and style-shaking Composer Igor Stravinsky...
...last visit in October 1953, he planned to go to Hollywood and write an opera with Igor Stravinsky. But first he stopped in New York to make some money by repeating his enormously successful readings of his "play for voices," Under Milk Wood, at Manhattan's Y.M.H.A...
...over. As Blanche du Bois in the grim ballet version of A Streetcar Named Desire, she had come within a few bars of the moment when Stanley Kowalski is supposed to rape her. The scene should have ended with Blanche making a spinning jump at Stanley (Igor Youskevitch) and being flung helplessly over his shoulder as the lights go out. Ballerina Kaye (110 Ibs.) jumped, all right, but as she did her right arm landed in her partner's left eye. The next thing she knew, Youskevitch (152 Ibs.) was Kaye-oed on the floor. The house doctor took...
...ballerina at all (she was born Alicia Marks, in London). A veteran of Sadler's Wells and of Ballet Theater itself, Ballerina Markova floated through such romantic favorites as Les Sylphides and Romeo and Juliet with an airy grace that has never lost its charm. ¶ Igor Youskevitch, 43. had the audience gasping, with his handsome bounds and dizzy spins in confections such as pas de deux from Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Russian-born Danseur Noble Youskevitch, who was an aspiring Olympic gymnast when he turned to ballet in 1932, is one of the world's greatest male...
...Last year he won a Fulbright Scholarships and took a leave of absence to lecture at his alma mater in Florence. Just to keep busy, he also made a lecture junket throughout Italy under the auspices of the U.S. Information Office, and in his spare time he translated the Igor Tale, an old Russian epic, into Italian...