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...addition to its originality of repertoire and excellence of staging, the Ballet Theatre is distinctive for the well-rounded capabilities of its dancers. With no name stars as big as Markova, Dolin, or Danilova, it depends on skillful and hard-working dancers like Nora Kaye, Alicia Alonso, Lucia Chase, Igor Youskevitch, Michael Kidd, and Antony Tudor and a well-trained corps de ballet. The total effect is of a well-knit group instead of a ragged base with a few added lights, such as the Original Ballet Russ and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo companies illustrate. With improved financial acumen...
...first performance of Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland's raucous Jazz Concerto. On that evening Bostonians had hissed; some had laughed out loud; some had accused Dr. Koussevitzky of insulting them.* In those days, Aaron Copland was the kind of cacophonous enfant terrible in the U.S. that Igor Stravinsky had once been in Paris. If audiences were no longer disturbed by these terrible children, it was for different reasons. Igor Stravinsky had waited for the public ear to become attuned to his jazzy dissonances. Aaron Copland had modified his harmonies to please the public...
...Like Igor ("Cholly") Cassini, his Manhattan opposite number, Lait does most of his work at night, gleaning items from bar tenders, waiters and customers in Mike Romanoff's restaurant and at Giro's, the Mocambo and the other "Sunset Strip" clubs. So far he has stuck to items about society celebrities (the Herricks, the Whitneys, the Rockefellers, etc.) and feature stories about forgotten heiresses and play boys. But some of his pieces have sent Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, pillar of the Examiner's society staff and of local society, flouncing into the editor's office...
Couple Concerts. For serious balletomanes the event of the week was the return of Igor Youskevitch, a gaunt, fierce-eyed, 34-year-old Slav, the greatest contemporary male classic dancer...
...University of Belgrade Kiev-born Igor Youskevitch studied chemical engineering and played soccer. "It was my second year when a ballerina there made a proposition for me to be her partner in an acrobatic dance," says Youskevitch. They were a success in Yugoslavia, so they went to Paris. "We did couple concerts. There we're flop. Then the ballerina had to go home. I think it was her husband or something...