Word: pas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like most genuinely successful enterprises, Sadler's Wells had a lot more than luck. It had a hard-driving director in Ninette de Valois, a graduate of Serge Diaghilev's great Ballet Russe. It had a corps de ballet drilled down to the last pas de chat, an ensemble built on the theory that it is as important to have a well-coordinated team as a great star. To put on the great "white ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George...
When she made her next appearance of the 1948-49 season, in Cinderella, London saw the change. The Daily Express reported as soberly as it could: "At the end of the lovely pas de deux ... so tense was the audience that one could hear the trickle of the tiny stage fountain above the closing notes of the clarinet." Last April, after a gala performance for Queen Elizabeth, the Evening Standard described the new Fonteyn: "Discarding the steely glitter that has sometimes divorced her from our deepest affections, she danced with simplicity, great feeling and unrivaled grace...
...Menzel narrated a torrid little epic about the adventures of some gas on the sun, while the tired Pandit's eyes dropped. At the end of the ten-minute film, Menzel exclaimed that he "could show five hours more without repeating," but he later made up for the faux pas by turning the best phrase of the afternoon: "Here's one thing where international cooperation helps. We'd like to photograph the sun all the time. That's something no one nation...
...could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann's third-act pas de deux...
France: Bouge pas...