Word: tutus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hall deliberately avoids the storybook approach to A Midsummer Night's Dream that some directors have adopted. This is no ethereal child's fantasy "with fairies in little white tutus skipping through gossamer forests," as Hall puts it. He sees the play, rather, as a poignant tale of "the universal experience of falling in love on Monday, out of love on Tuesday, in love again on Wednesday, and discovering on Thursday that your best friend loves the same girl." David Warner, remembered from Morgan (see CINEMA color), and Diana Rigg, onetime heroine of ABC's The Avengers...
...different kind of tune. It lies in the midst of tfie finest concentration of first-rate music and dance festivals in the U.S., if not the world. In the summer, more and more of the major U.S. symphony orchestras and dance companies are packing their tubas and tutus, fleeing the sweltering cities for theaters in the sticks. And many of them are settling in and around the place where Diamond Jim and Bet a Million used to gambol...
...GLORIA GOVRIN, 21, has been in tutus since she could walk. As a Newark schoolgirl, she haunted the backstage of the New York City Ballet collecting autographs. Now she is a veteran soloist, a fine comedienne in Stars and Stripes and Western Symphony. Her role as Queen of the Amazons in Midsummer Night's Dream was type casting; she is the tallest (5 ft. 7½ in.) girl in the troupe. Thick-legged and saucer-eyed, she is a steady, remarkably effortless performer whose spectacular leaps put some of the male dancers to shame. "Gloria is beautiful and strong...
...born plain Ruth Denis in Newark-made her stage debut as a vaudeville hoofer in 1893, later turned to acting. Then she became interested in the Far East and its sensuous dances. Her 1906 New York dance debut was in a daringly original Oriental program that shocked the tutus off the ballet world. "That year," she remembers, "the face of the dance world really began to change...
...dancers had rehearsed for months. On the eve of their premiere performance, they worked nearly twelve hours, dancing on into the night. In the basement of their three-story studio, a tailor and six seamstresses attacked a stack of white tutus: the ballerinas had danced so hard for so long that their costumes no longer fitted them. Then the lights went down in George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, and Washington got its first glimpse last week of the National Ballet Company-the city's first professional resident troupe...