Word: tutus
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...modern piece by Larissa D. Koch ’08, and another by this year’s winner of the Suzanne Farrell award in dance, Molly M. Altenburg ’07. It will also feature an Irish dance sequence sure to ruffle a few tutus, and allow the dancers to exhibit a more informal side of ballet. In that same vein, the second performance slated two weekends from now is said to be an “informal showing” that should give the audience an “informative, behind-the-scenes feel...
...interspersed with archival footage of many of their most stirring productions. Their life, mainly on arduous tours, was hard and financially hand-to-mouth. But no one's complaining. They brought dancing of a very high order to places that had never seen anyone in toe shoes and tutus before, they found camaraderie, fun and the ineffable satisfactions of artistic enterprise in their work. In short, they are a nest of gallant old birds and this movie, directed by David Geller and Dayna Goldfine, is inspiring in the best, unsentimental meaning of the term...
...urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced to improvise. Tutus are substituted for missing armor, a giant pretzel replaces a dragon, and the hero falls through a hole in a half-drawn floor. Ultimately Ned quits, and a desperate Lendler runs out of the letter e as his book comes...
...Edgar Degas’ ballerinas made their stunning first debut at Harvard, wowing crowds for nine days in April with their graceful tutus and practiced movements...
...luck allowed him to escape starvation, but ballet school during the Cultural Revolution was not all tutus and toe shoes. Beloved teachers cleaned toilets; students spent their summers toiling alongside farmers or factory workers; and more class time was devoted to the study of political movements than to dance movements. At Madame Mao's insistence, kung fu kicks and death stares were introduced to mincing ballet routines. "The dancing looked all right," she once observed during a visit to the school, "but where are the guns? Where are the grenades...