Word: taglioni
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...first selection, "Pas de Quarte," choreographed by Jules Perrot, was originally tailored to showcase the abilities of the 19th century's premiere ballerinas: Marie Taglioni, Carla Grisi, Fanny Cerrito and Lucile Grahn. This epic performance by the four dancers became infamous for its air of heated rivalry, each woman vying for the spotlight and the audience's attention. In this 20th century rendition, four women re-enacted the parts of these famous ballerinas. The Conservatory students amusingly portrayed this onstage tension through exaggerated, flowery arm movements and strained smiles, plastered across the face of each dancer. The underlying competition, acted...
Like Poe, Cornell was obsessed with a dream Europe. Cornell's Europe, however, ended with World War I and perpetuated itself in hotel letterheads from French spas, fragments of Baedeker maps and reverent evocations of ballerinas, from Marie Taglioni to Loie Fuller. It lasted from the 15th century to la Belle Epoque; his boxes preserve it like microscope slides...
Alicia Markova is, by practically unanimous consensus, the greatest ballerina . alive. Only the cautious conservatism of ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations only by Marie Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project...
...without stopping. But more, her dancing has the same subtle, unearthly quality which marked the early playing of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Author Haskell prides himself on his collection of ballet slippers, although as a balletomaniac he pales beside a St. Petersburg clique which paid $175 for a pair of Taglioni's, had them cooked, prepared with a special sauce and ate them at a banquet...
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