Word: michio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed male dancers are the Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady...
...Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
...American Opera Company will give "Pagliacci" at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. The presentation will be featured by the appearance of Michio Ito, the famous Japanese dancer...
...repertory for the coming fortnight includes seven operas beginning with Gounod's "Faust" on Monday evening; "Madame Butterfly" will be given Tuesday evening; "Martha" on Wednesday afternoon; Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" Wednesday evening; "Pagliacci" on Thursday evening and in addition an original program by Michio Ito, Japanese, dancer; Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" Friday evening; "Faust' Saturday afternoon; "Carmen" Saturday evening. The second week will open with "Martha" on Monday evening; "Pagliacci" Tuesday evening with another Ito dance program; "Faust" Wednesday afternoon;. "The Marriage of Figaro" Wednesday evening; "The Abduction from the Seraglio" Thursday evening: "Faust" Friday evening...