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...memory of choreographer Jerome Robbins, whose masterpiece, Fancy Free, was featured at every performance. The performance included five short pieces revealing the classical and the modern strengths of ABT's repertoire and dancers; The Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Fancy Free, and three pas de deux from Swan Lake, Le Corsaire and Romeo and Juliet. The dancers performed each number with a refreshing and youthful exuberance. The enthusiasm with which they danced, the consistently strong technique of the dancers from the corps de ballet to the principle dancers and the ease with which they performed both classical and modern pieces...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: American Ballet Theater: Footloose And `Fancy Free | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

Darryl Li '01, Parul Singh '00, Swan Sit '99-'00 and Maryanthe E. Malliaris, who is also a Crimson executive, are Icon's four co-founders...

Author: By John P. Posch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergrads Launch On-Line Magazine | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...simply by doing nothing." But the political deal that will underwrite a new government -- whoever is at its head -- is likely to strip the presidency of many of its executive powers, including the right to appoint and dismiss the government. So the current silence could be Yeltsin's autocratic swan song. And constitutionally, it can last only until Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin's Imperial Swan Song | 9/9/1998 | See Source »

...Weehawken, N.J., starring in the premiere of his first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music, a raucously jazzy score by another boy wonder named Leonard Bernstein, had MADE IN THE U.S.A. stamped on every page. Jerome Robbins took two dozen curtain calls that spring night in 1944, and never looked back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Made in The U.S.A. Genius: Jerome Robbins, master choreographer | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...your friends say. If you're quick enough, you'll pick out odd phrases that put genuine alternative band names--like Perfect Thyroid, Infamous Gnomosexuals, Accidental Groove and Burning Spear--to shame. Our list of outtakes from purely casual speech includes classics like Extraneous Stomach, Sneaky Bucket, Vomitous Swan and, my personal favorite, El Nino Lips...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CONNECTICUT | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

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