Word: karinska
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath a striped canopy, Balanchine marshaled 41 dancers wearing spangled tutus and brass-buttoned coats loaded with a fruit salad of stars, medals and epaulets (famed Costumer Karinska, who traditionally arrives, cavalrylike, just as Balanchine is about to burn, outdid herself by producing the outfits several hours before curtain time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double...
...most ambitious effort in the New York City troupe's history. For settings, it called in Metropolitan Opera Designer Horace Armistead, for costumes, Broadway's Karinska, and the company's own Jean Rosenthal for production and lighting. Between them, they staged as eye-filling a spectacle as ever blossomed on Broadway...
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