Word: princess
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...fairness, there were one or two enchanting moments. The second act consisted mainly of a lengthy dream-sequence where the Princess Aurora and her attendant nymphs danced before the bedazzled Prince. Here the ensemble choreography abandoned the conventional interlocking straight lines, and worked a tapestry of fluid configurations. Dancers bordered the stage in an open rectangle, clustered in a small circle, dipped into a deepening zigzag, or fell to the floor in a smooth oval, their long gowns floating out around them like water lily-pads. When the curtain fell, the patterns lingered in the mind like a figure-skater...
That is the effect that solo dancing should have. When it worked in this performance, it was usually because Elaine Bauer danced Princess Aurora (she alternated in the title role with Laura Young and Durine Alinova). Elegant, long-limbed and lean as a grasshopper, Bauer is easily the finest ballerina Boston's got. She is not a great dancer: the flow of near-perfect form is missing, and sometimes she moves with an awkward detachment from her body, hands and feet stiff as saucers. But unlike Laura Young, for example (who danced a typically colorless Princess Florise), Bauer focuses...
Bauer's role in Sleeping Beauty includes one of the most infernally difficult sequences in the classical repertoire, the so-called Rose Adagio. It is a moment of psychological depth that is rare in 19th-century ballet. The princess stands poised on her 16th birthday between childhood and adulthood, between the parents whose presence she acknowledges reverently and the four suitors who dance with her in turn, between the festive court around her and the unfolding self-awareness within. Twice during the course of the Adagio, the ballerina must balance on one pointed toe for several minutes as she takes...
Willie Hamilton, British Labor Party M.P., on Princess Margaret and her involvement with Pop Singer Roddy Llewellyn: "It has turned her into a punk royal...
Between acts in Monte Carlo, Her Serene Highness Princess Grace is serenely back on the boards in the U.S. for her first American stage appearance since 1952. This time Grace, 48, is helping launch International Wildlife Year by giving a six-city series of poetry readings entitled Birds, Beasts and Flowers-with box office receipts going to various charities. Along with her costar, British Actor Richard Pasco, Grace gave her first reading in Pittsburgh and had a tough time making the Kelly pipes project. For her next number after the poetry reading, Grace will oversee the June nuptials of Daughter...