Word: toes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carey hit a torrid 10 of 16 from the floor and snagged 15 rebounds. Carey's effort, combined with seven field goals by Jeff Hill and some nifty heel and toe work by Doc Hines along the baseline for ten first half points took up the offensive slack created by the suspension of leading scorer Brian Banks...
Starched Tutus. Dance's new girl, it seems, is a guy-Antony Bassae. Along with the nine other "ballerinos" of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Bassae performs in satin toe shoes and starched tutus. The Trock less than two years ago started in Manhattan Soho lofts and neighborhood shoebox theaters. This week it makes a leap into respectability with a four-night stand at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In addition to aiming choreographic broadsides at such sacred swans as George Balanchine ("Go for Barocco") and Martha Graham ("Phaedra/Monotonous"), the Trock delivers a few pointed comments on Tchaikovsky...
...partner's shoulder in the classic manner. Most of the Trock dancers take class daily, some, like Antony Bassae who has performed male roles with German opera ballets, have conventional training and experience. Taylor studied with both Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey before taking to his toes. He maintains that any well-trained dancer should be able to go up on point. Bassae agrees: "Ballet seems always made by men for women. I think that it's a challenge to change that. When I put on a pair of toe shoes, I found out what...
...Bach Duet" (1974) pairs white-bikinied Rose Marie Wright and Kenneth Rinker. Halfway through JSB's cantata 78, Rinker spits, then, repeating a gesture used earlier as a joke on soft-shoe, grinds that spot on the floor with his toe. That shocked a friend--such an act treated as if just one more jitter/jiggle/jolt...
...from old Errol Flynn movies) for the free-skating program. She has spent a week in Toronto arranging the free program with Choreographer Brian Foley. Meanwhile, new costumes have been made. Finally, there are the skates. She will need at least two pairs: one with blades that have short toe picks and a shallow bottom groove between the edges, the better for gliding through the figures; another with oversize toe picks and a deep groove to add bite for the free style...