Word: tutus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath a striped canopy, Balanchine marshaled 41 dancers wearing spangled tutus and brass-buttoned coats loaded with a fruit salad of stars, medals and epaulets (famed Costumer Karinska, who traditionally arrives, cavalrylike, just as Balanchine is about to burn, outdid herself by producing the outfits several hours before curtain time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double...
Testament of Beauty. It looked as if the eleventh duke would have to put Chatsworth on the block, and see its treasures scattered round the world. But the young Devonshire, whose family motto is Cavendo tutus (Secure by Caution), vowed: "I will fight to the bitter end." At this point he was aided by the legal handiwork of a doctrinaire Socialist. Back in 1946 Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, operating on the Socialist theory that "the best that still remains should surely become the heritage not of a few private owners but of all our people," set aside...
...ballet opened on a simply curtained stage with an eight-girl corps in red-shaded classic tutus, moving in familiar Balanchine patterns-four against four, diagonally across the stage, interweaving. Then Balanchine proved the caliber of his company. He set five ballerinas in a line: Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil Le-Clercq, Diana Adams, Patricia Wilde, Melissa Hayden. Three danseurs nobles