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...dancers weaving in and out and around each other," says Anastos. "So why not do a chain where someone gets stuck right in the middle and can't get out?" In the dazzling finale of the Corsaire pas de deux, Bassae/Karpova completes all the pirouettes and whipping one-leg turns in the traditional ver sion, then hurls his chunky body through the air and alights on his partner's shoulder in the classic manner. Most of the Trock dancers take class daily, some, like Antony Bassae who has performed male roles with German opera ballets, have conventional training...
Their dancing continued to gain in strength and grace. By the time they arrived at the showy display of Riccardo Drigo's Harlequinade, Panov's springy jeté and Galina's whirlwind fouettes (whipping one-leg turns) were evidence enough that for them the two years had been stopped time, not lost time...
...ONE-LEG, by the Marquess of Anglesey (428 pp; Morrow; $7.50). A debonair portrait of one of the great 19th century soldier-aristocrats by his admiring great-great-grandson, the present marquess. Henry William Paget, Lord Anglesey, spent 20 years in the House of Commons without making a single speech. He had much more to say to the ladies, among them the beautiful Duchess of Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed...
Their hero is a man whom even Jazz Pianist-Composer Ferdinand ("Jelly-Roll") Morton, a notoriously uncharitable critic, acknowledged as "the greatest ragtime writer that ever lived." In a book packed with the high-sounding names of old ragtime wizards and composers ("Blind Boone," "Jack the Bear," "One-Leg Shadow"), a quiet-mannered, softspoken, scholarly little man stands out above them all: Scott Joplin, the composer of Maple Leaf...
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