Word: leclercq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience (of New York City Ballet dancers) entered, carrying folding chairs. There were: a deep-down music lover who listens a la Rodin, a pair of candy-sucking bobby-soxers, a long-legged young thing who practically climbed into the piano in her love of music (Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq), a bored couple and, finally, a young fellow who trampled all the other concertgoers while trying to find his seat. At that point the Chopin medallion zoomed up into the flies and madness descended...
...instance, a macabre pattern of faces appeared out of the darkness. The two principals seemed to be looking for something, then danced up to a violent climax and went away again, still looking. Of course, there were a couple of ragtime movements that seemed normal enough, with Tanaquil LeClercq kicking up her bobby-soxed heels. But how about that weird finale? A lot of faces began to show in the darkness, too far down to be full-grown dancers. It was pretty scary until the stage got lighter and it turned out that the girls and boys were on their...
...Balanchine's dancers were on their toes most of the time, doing high kicks and hoedowns evoking rather than describing romance and square dance on the frontier. Sometimes the ballerinas took off their fancy airs: pretty Diana Adams walked flatfooted, in an impudent, corn-fed way; dramatic Tanaquil LeClercq snapped her hips waggishly; Janet Reed took a running header across the stage onto her partner's arms...
...house, had sunk into a Christmas night dream, the grownups took over. In Act II came the company's stars, one after the other, to dance through Clara's dream. Among them were Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Nicholas Magallanes as her Cavalier, and Tanaquil LeClercq as the Dewdrop (Waltz of the Flowers}; Francisco Moncion undulated through an antic Arabian Dance...
...grand dukes. * And a political success. After service in Geneva, he was appointed Ambassador to Spain (1933), died (in bed) just before he was scheduled to leave Moscow for Madrid. * Except for a rash of "Ballets Russes," all of which claimed Diaghilev's magical mantle. * Among them: Tanaquil LeClercq, Patricia Wilde. Herbert Bliss. Todd Bolender, Nicholas Magallanes, Francisco Moncion...