Word: sadler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known) or the Sugar Plum Fairy. Dame Margot Fonteyn made her debut at Sadler's Wells in 1934 as a snowflake. Both Rudolf Nureyev and Baryshnikov danced the prince as young men in Leningrad, as did Balanchine himself some 60 years...
Helpmann staged The Merry Widow in part because he felt that in Dame Margot Fonteyn he had the ideal leading lady. He was her first partner in the late '30s when, as a teenager, she danced classic roles at the old Sadler's Wells Ballet. Dame Margot is 57 now. She per forms, she says modestly, because people still ask her to. She is, in fact, one of the great international box office draws in show business. Audiences who pay to see her as the wealthy widow of Pontevedro will get their money's worth...
...English Ring has again raised the old opera-in-English controversy. The translation used is that of British Writer Andrew Porter, who is now music critic at The New Yorker. Commissioned by the Sadler's Wells Opera and first performed as a cycle in 1973, the translation is a conscientious job and has already been used by several American companies for individual productions. Sometimes Porter has to change the meaning to get the meter right. As Hagen strikes down Siegfried, the vassals cry out: "Hagen! was tust du? Was tatest du?" Literally that means: "Hagen! What are you doing...
...been a lucky ballet. The 1912 Paris première by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe suffered from underrehearsal and, according to Michel Fokine, who choreographed the work, indifferent dancing by Karsavina and Nijinsky. No one faulted the dancing of Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the 1951 Sadler's Wells revival, but the public was cool to Choreographer Frederick Ashton's jarring transfer of the mythic lovers from the 3rd century B.C. to modern Greece. This spring, for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, John Taras confected an ill-favored mod-squad version that will...
...weight) Foreman is the most feared puncher since Sonny Listen. After a few blows from Foreman, the average heavy punching bag begins to look like a pancake. So do most of his opponents; none of his last eight fights have gone beyond the second round. Says his trainer, Dick Sadler, a shrewd old boxing hand who once managed Listen: "Anything George hits, he's gonna hurt...