Word: tutus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged onstage. One of them was a 25-year-old whiz kid from Weehawken, N.J., starring in the premiere of his first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music, a raucously jazzy score by another boy wonder named Leonard Bernstein, had MADE IN THE U.S.A. stamped on every page. Jerome Robbins took two dozen curtain calls that spring night...
...swans appear during the young man's turbulent dream. No tutus, no toe shoes, no hand flutters. These are robustly built men, clad in feathered trousers and wearing black makeup on their foreheads that suggests a swan's beak. As a signature move, the men use a wholly mesmerizing gesture coming from the torso up through the shoulders out into extended arms...
...been the name for the retrospective of her work that runs through Jan. 5 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Romantic melancholy is Goldin's true north, the mood she always returns to. Her friends laugh and party. They show off their tattoos and tutus. But they also brood and question the dead air with their eyes. They die from AIDS. In her self-portraits Goldin shows the injuries of a serious beating at the hands of a boyfriend--bruises are the regalia of romance here--and follows herself through drug and alcohol rehab...
...Boston Ballet's latest performance of "The Sleeping Beauty" is a highly-publicized parade of elegant costumes and graceful classical ballet...and very little else. The layers upon layers of sequins in the dancers' tutus sparkle beautifully, but the show's general atmosphere does not. The show is indeed a marvel to watch...
Instead of allowing the over glamour of Balanchine's choreography to shine through, the talented company looks like dancing fish out of water, in atrocious, spangled satin tutus, no less. Their smiles forced, the company is unable to muster the crucial showy energy to make the piece a success...