Word: leotard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ther Kunkel admits, are the long-range goal. "Going to the retailer," he explained, "is an attempt to create a demand." All Manila buzzed this week over a ban posted in every Roman Catholic girls' school against accepting any student who studies ballet. The reason: the scanty costumes (leotard and tutu) used by ballet dancers and the "extraordinary positions," as one nun put it, assumed in mixed company...
Four times a week she puts her hair up into a pony tail, dons a leotard, and goes off to classes in modern dancing and ballet. Wandering near Broadway, she avoided the Broadway theater where M-G-M publicized Green Fire with a huge poster of a bosomy girl in sexy green drapery with Grace's head but another girl's body. "It makes me so mad," says Grace. "And the dress isn't even in the picture." Last week MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary summoned Grace to Hollywood to propose a new picture...
Balanchine wanted to use Mozart's sprightly Divertimento in B Flat (K. 287) for his 73rd ballet. Four days before the premiere by his New York City Ballet, he found a title of French origin that fit his new dances like a leotard: "Caracole" -twisting and turning in a compact form. Caracole was full of fancy, always clear, but incredibly complex. The companies that could dance it, as the Times's John Martin noted, "could be numbered on one's right thumbs...