Word: leclercq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the premiere audience saw first was Dancer Francisco Moncion resting on a practice-room floor. He began to stretch and ripple his muscles, then caught sight of himself in an imaginary mirror and went into a self-admiring performance. Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq entered, joined in the mirror work. Eventually Faun Moncion turned and kissed Nymph LeClercq on the cheek. As if jolted by seeing each other as real people rather than mirror images, faun and nymph broke apart. She glided away, and he lay down for another rest as the curtain fell...
...Director George Balanchine was born in Russia, but is a U.S. citizen. Ballerina Tanaquil Leclercq was born in Paris, but moved to New York City as a child. Star Maria Tallchief is more American than most: she is part Indian. The corps is almost entirely from New York...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Rumer Godden's A Candle for St. Jude, with Tanaquil LeClercq, Marc Platt...
More & more dancers edged onstage and fell under the spell of the tootling clarinet. Miming to the music, tiny, red-haired Janet Reed led her cohorts through a lithe trance that almost stopped the show. By the time Jerome Robbins himself danced on with Tanaquil LeClercq to join in some hilarious, supine calisthenics, the audience was having trouble deciding whether to hold its sides or pound its palms. It wound up at the curtain alternately doing both. Brilliant Choreographer Robbins had clearly brought the New York City Ballet a smashing...