Word: tallchief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashing first-scene duet of tall, part-Osage Indian Ballerina Maria Tallchief (the fourth Mrs. Balanchine*) as the Firebird and Francisco Moncion as the Prince brought a touchdown roar from the audience. In the second scene, Balanchine managed to move the evil Kostchei and his 40 demons back & forth diagonally in four groups, so that City Center's scant (40-ft.) stage always seemed full of excitement but never cluttered. Throughout, it was the most stunning ballet production Manhattan balletomanes had seen in many a moon. With the final curtain, the audience set up the kind of clamor that...
...other new ballet was George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations" which uses music of Tchaikowsky. It is one of those abstract jobs, with no book but with lots of opportunity for the corps de ballet and the soloists to show their stuff. The soloists were Igor Youskevitch and Maria Tallchief. Mr. Youskevitch is generally regarded as the best classical male dancer in the country, but he seemed Monday night, with all his technique, to be lacking in vitality and fire. But the highlight of the evening was the performance of Miss Tallchief. She is an exciting new classical dancer...
Married. George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovich Balinchinvadze), 42, famed Russian-born choreographer, onetime director of the Piaghilev Russian Ballet and the American Ballet; and Ballerina Maria Tallchief, 21, his Irish-Osage Indian protegee; she for the first time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan...
...stars incapable of handling more difficult roles--since when has Alexandre Danilova ceased being the leading ballerina of the United States? And who in the world of dance criticism but J.A.L. will say that Natalie Krassovska, Ruthanna Boris, and Maria Tallchief are not capable of matching, if not equalling Janet Reed, Nora Kaye, and Alicia Alonso of the Ballet Theater? The only male dancer in the Ballet Theater who is tops is Andre Eglevsky, while John Kriza, John Taras, etc. are strictly still in the stage of development. Obviously no company in America can offer Frederic Franklin in such...