Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkans have become as formalized as a ritual dance. Almost every non-Communist delegate considers the fact of Albanian and Bulgarian aid to the Greek guerrillas to be as fully proven as the law of gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey, via "maritime channels...
...expected, the company's real successes were its full-flavored, full-length performances of the three-and four-act ballet classics, the Tchaikovsky-Ivanov Swan Lake and the Tchaikovsky-Petipa The Sleeping Beauty, which call for almost as much pantomime as dancing...
...enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot (Queen of the Swans) and her flock (the corps de ballet) huddling and quivering in terror before the evil magician...
...Cast. She got a chance to warm up. After her 16th birthday, she took over Markova's role in Ashton's Les Rendezvous. Already, for the conservative Morning Post, she had "some of that intoxicating quality always associated with the great dancers." After her first Swan Lake, the Daily Telegraph granted her "that rare title 'ballerina.' " Her first Giselle, at 17, was, said the News-Chronicle, "the partial fulfillment of a promise she makes every time she dances." By the time she was 20 she had completed the great classical trilogy with Sleeping Beauty...
Piccadilly by Neon. Even now that she has reached a pinnacle of perfection at 30, Margot is still seriously studious. Even after tough evening performances like Sleeping Beauty or Swan Lake she rarely misses the ritual of morning class, where she stretches at the bar like the other dancers. She is completely unaffected-a quality which helps set the atmosphere backstage. Explains Frederick Ashton: "When the prima ballerina doesn't put on airs, obviously anyone else trying to would only look ludicrous...