Word: lia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With her waiflike face and small person (she does quite graze 5 ft. 4 in.; she weighs around 93 lbs.), Gelsey is an enchanting soubrette, delightful as Swanilda in Coppélia or, more recently, as Clara in Baryshnikov's A.B.T. production of The Nutcracker. Gelsey enters in a swirl of other young people and first steps out of the crowd as a shy spectator of party festivities. At bedtime her tiny frame is swallowed up in a pink nightdress. Later, amid the wondrous dream parade of snowflakes and exotic entertainers, the girl-woman Clara stands out as the most ethereal...
...Pena's long suit is a powerful sense of theater. At A.B.T. he has danced such roles as the Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty, a sailor in Fancy Free and the Nutcracker prince. A high point came last year when he played the old dollmaker in Coppélia. A curtain-time substitute, he gave a dark, almost mystical performance that New York balletomanes still prize...
This December, Gregory took to her toes tentatively during A.B.T.'s run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. A month later, a very nervous Swanhilda waited in the wings at City Center in Manhattan as the curtain rose on A.B.T.'s opening-night Coppélia. Scarcely had her satin shoes flashed into view, when the first volley of bravos rolled through the theater. The orchestra played on for several bars, then stopped. Gregory, misty-eyed, curtsied for more than two minutes before the show could proceed. In the dance world such a demonstration is rare...
...Radcliffe lightweight boat of Coxswain Barbara Galton, stroke Dottie Kent, Lia Lent, Roxanne Malenbaum, Janet Gilmore, Chanan Tang, Martha Tullis, Meredith Beck and Katie McIntyre lost to the B.U. lightweights by nearly a length...
Married. Melvin Belli, 64, flamboyant "King of Torts" with a knack for courtroom theatrics and attracting headlines; and Lia Triff, 23, University of Maryland coed; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Sonora, Calif...