Word: melissa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the theme and its lurid treatment, Bartok's own Budapest banned Mandarin until 1946. Manhattan's City Ballet Company was under no such inhibition. City Center cast sinewy Melissa Hayden as the streetwalker, picked Veteran Dancer Hugh Laing as the mandarin, and called in the public...
...thing, in rehearsals they had found the stage floor rather rough. Said one dancer: "I've never had to darn my toe shoes so much." And the British balletomanes they were to face for the first time were rumored to be even rougher. Wailed 20-year-old Dancer Melissa Hayden: "Gee, my stomach-I'm in real pain. I don't know how I can use my legs. I just want to hunch...
...only cry of anguish came from the company's prima ballerina, part-Osage Indian Maria Tallchief (the fourth Mrs. Balanchine) who tore a ligament, was later replaced during an exit by Melissa Hayden. Maria would be out of action for at least a week, but even Maria could take comfort in the fact that the British were queuing up for seats for the rest of the company's six-week stay...
...danced pictures." The pictures were full of familiar Ashton trademarks-the wit of Wedding Bouquet, the subtle fancy of Facade, the gay, gregarious pageantry and a little of the slapstick of Cinderella. And there were salty passages indeed; Rimbaud's (Nicholas Magallanes) painfully sexual grapple with Profane Love (Melissa Hayden) was both lurid and profane...