Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flurry of ruffled tutu feathers, a battle was joined last week. At the Metropolitan Opera House the Original Ballet Russe opened to a predominantly male first-night audience (including a young man with sequin dust in his hair). The next night Manhattanites scurried to the Broadway Theater for the opening of the American-style Ballet Theater...
First Round. With few exceptions critics gave the first round to the sprightly young Ballet Theater. Its Les Patineurs was the one hit among the week's three new ballets (new to the U.S.). The three...
...Patineurs (Ballet Theater), a slithery skating party arranged by British Choreographer Frederick Ashton. Dancers (without skates) mime ice skaters just as ice skaters have been miming ballet dancers for years...
...Monte Carlo. That brought him to America, where he was drafted and became a Navy physical-education instructor. He is married to ex-Ballerina Anna Scarpova. Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good." During his first week with the new Ballet Theater company Youskevitch appeared only in three short pas de deux with Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye. For the rest of the season he will dance leads in the classic ballets: Swan Lake, Giselle and Les Sylphides...
...artistic odds might be all with Ballet Theater, but canny Sol Hurok was not worrying. The name Hurok in combination with Metropolitan Opera House is still box office. Hurok's old-fashioned Ballet Russe was drawing crowds twice as big as its rival...