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...week, Conductor Dorati had more cause than usual to kick the furniture. He had been brought to Manhattan to be music director of a new "World's Fair of Music." A 70-piece orchestra, plus such big name help as Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald, Ballet Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, had been signed up to lure lookers and listeners into Grand Central Palace...
...surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't remember what he is expected to do next. Good clean fun, and skillfully done, it is also a symptom of ballet's present introversion. Pas de Trois was postponed twice because of Ballerina Alicia Markova's illness, was finally put on without her. Critics found her substitute, veteran dancer Rosella Hightower, a good dancer if not yet a great...
...wings a piano played softly Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. A squatty ballerina in pink & white tarlatan waddled across the broad, bare stage with the grace of an angry duck, poised herself on her toes in the manner of Alicia Markova and executed a series of shaky pirouettes. To no music at. all she leaped through the air and beat her chest in an athletic agony that was unmistakably Martha Graham...
...addition to its originality of repertoire and excellence of staging, the Ballet Theatre is distinctive for the well-rounded capabilities of its dancers. With no name stars as big as Markova, Dolin, or Danilova, it depends on skillful and hard-working dancers like Nora Kaye, Alicia Alonso, Lucia Chase, Igor Youskevitch, Michael Kidd, and Antony Tudor and a well-trained corps de ballet. The total effect is of a well-knit group instead of a ragged base with a few added lights, such as the Original Ballet Russ and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo companies illustrate. With improved financial acumen...
Camille (Ballet Russe), a turgid fancy-dress charade by New York City-born John Taras to a potpourri of Schubert piano pieces. Even Markova could not breathe life into Dumas' consumptive heroine...