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...illiterate audience member a general idea of the broad scope and long tradition of dance. "Pas de Quartre," the first piece on the program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugni's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night, Elizabeth Darst '99, Allison Lane '02, Liz Santuro '01 and Mai'a Davis '99 each...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Perpetual Motion: An Evening of Time, Money, and | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...dance community has put together this eclectic mix of ballet, tap, ballroom and modern dance. Ravel's "Bolero" is juxtaposed with Bernstein's "West Side Story." Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with Pugni's "Pas de Quatre." And Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon." Show goes from April 15-17 at 8 p.m. and April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Groovy Train: Drama Queens | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Combined with a beautiful score by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Prince Oldenbourg, the sets, costumes, dancing and acting created a very enjoyable evening of ballet...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: 'Le Corsaire' Sails to Success: | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...time simply because the combatants lacked the will or the stamina to sustain them. For three delightful centuries, the Nicolotti and Castellani families of Venice enjoyed so virulent a relationship that citizens would gather to watch them fight it out on what came to be called the Ponte dei Pugni, the Bridge of Fists. If they were not doing battle there, they were knocking one another about on a drawbridge that the authorities would raise, leaving the two factions glowering at each other impotently from opposite sides. Yet the brawls eventually dissipated into athletic contests, and in 1848 the families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Making and Keeping of Enemies | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...Hoyle. William Dollar, a slippery, mischievous Joker, upset calculations, spoiled the most promising hands, was routed finally by a Royal Flush. When the last strains of music had died away, the audience rose and cheered a composer ingenious enough to have knitted fragments by Rossini, Delibes, Strauss, Ravel, Pugni and himself into a seamless whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballets | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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