Word: tutus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are in the swamp. The Muppets are further evidence, bolstered by Donald Elliott's informative guidebook and Clinton Arrowood's corps d'amphibians.' In fact, the text is a straightforward introduction to the dance. But somehow, when the steps are illustrated by frogs in tutus and tights, an air of lunacy pervades the proceedings and the young reader is suddenly an attendant at the wedding of comedy...
Basketball Star Calvin Murphy doesn't wear spangled tutus, but he twirls a mean baton. "I was bullied into it," says the Houston Rockets' guard. "All six of my mother's sisters were twirlers, and they thought it was the thing for me to do." Murphy, 29, began twirling when he was five and later performed with his home-town high school band in Norwalk, Conn. "There was some teasing, but I wasn't bothered much," he says. According to Murphy, "baton twirling is harder than basketball. Con- centration is the key word and you have...
...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...
...holding hands because they are rehearsing a high-kick production number with Dancer Cissie Wellman Donner, all for the sake of a Nov. 19 multiple sclerosis fund-raising benefit in L.A. Come show time, the boys will look even more terpsichorean, according to Costumer Barbara Zelin. Besides pink tutus, "the fellows will wear low-cut white tank tops with their numbers in pink sequins, white tights to show off their legs-and tennis shoes. We haven't seen any ballet slippers in their size...
Based on Glazunov's melodious score for Raymonda, Cortège is an elegant, plotless exercise in classic Marinsky style that would have delighted an audience of imperial grand dukes. One corps was dressed in shimmering white tights, tunics and tutus; another corps was costumed and booted in a fairy-tale fantasy of Hungarian peasant dress...