Word: pas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballet is a bravura double pas de deux using four of the company's top dancers. The dramatic Brazilian prima ballerina Marcia Haydee is partnered with the ebullient American Richard Cragun. Joyce Cuoco, who was discovered at Radio City Music Hall, dances with Egon Madsen from Denmark. They appear on an empty, side-lit stage in salmon-pink Lycra leotards shining like a second and highly sensual mermaid skin. Hans Werner Henze's Third Symphony, in turn compressed, then explosive, provides the cerebral score...
...that. The initials stand for the first names of the Stuttgart's four leading principals - Richard Cragun, Birgit Keil, Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen. In all justice, the title should include an H., for Heinz Clauss, who brilliantly partners Haydée in a soaringly romantic pas de deux...
Margot Fonteyn danced the pas de deux from Swan Lake while Isaac Stern played the violin. Van Cliburn knocked off a Hungarian rhapsody. Shirley Verrett brought down the house with Donizetti. Sol Hurok was celebrating his 60th year as an entrepreneur with a salute from his stars. The audience that packed the Metropolitan Opera House at up to $100 a ticket in tribute to the 85-year-old Russian immigrant was stellar too. In the crowd: Vanderbilts, Astors, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Cristina Ford, Jackie and Aristotle Onassis, and the Prince and Princess Alfonso de Borbon of Spain. A visitor to Hurok...
...endlessly inventive Petipa-styled variations. The other corps, as mock Magyars, stomped and whirled through a rousing czardas that looked as if it might have been borrowed from Russia's bouncy, folkish Moiseyev dancers. Hayden, naturally, was given a brace of queenly solo turns and a pas de deux with Favorite Partner Jacques d'Amboise calculated to accent her un obtrusively cool, legato manner...
GUND HALL: 7:00 Project Gasbuggy, 7:15 Newsparade of 1937, 7:25 Buster Keaton in Coney Island, 7:45 Gerald McBoing Boing, 7:55 Bambi Meets Godzilla, 8:00 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara, 9:37 This is War...? with the Marx Brothers, 9:47 Pas de Deux, 10:07 Gertie the Dinosaur, 10:07 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara...