Word: tutus
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...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...
They visited several textile stores to find the right fabric. After rejecting metal screening (too stiff) and the material used to make tutus (too flimsy), they settled on a flesh-colored synthetic fabric. They liked the way the sheets caught the light, he said...
...appreciate it he does, along with all who come to this show and see Harvard students proving that they can both dance the steps of the choreography and elicit an emotional response with their movement to the music. Anyone expecting to come see some girls in tutus doing tame, traditional dancing should check that assumption at the door...
There will be no dying swans, no fluffy tutus, no dancing snowflakes. There will be techno, body sculpture and moving lights. And there will be history made, as for only the second time in 21 years, a dance production occupies one of the two coveted undergrad slots on the Loeb Main Stage this theatrical season...
Weiss’s piece, “The Four Temperaments,” was originally choreographed by Balanchine, the Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer who moved ballet away from fairy tales and fluffy tutus and instead emphasized balance and angular, technical movement...