Word: ballet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years the American Ballet Theatre has led two contrasting lives. In one, it basks in a measure of critical acclaim shared by few dance troupes anywhere. In the other, it is constantly shadowed by the threat of bankruptcy. Last week the company ended its anniversary season with a four-week engagement at Manhattan's New York State Theater that broke all box-office records in U.S. ballet history. But even as the final curtain rang down, accompanied by the now familiar sound of bravos, ABT faced a most uncertain future...
...remembers Rita Joyce, "could never understand why Breon studied English and philosophy. They figured he should be using his brainpower for engineering or physics." Breon, like much of the class of '60, moved away from Salina and now teaches at the University of Indiana. Sandy Van Cleef studied ballet, married a mortician and settled in Magnolia, Ark. Keith Cushman became an assistant professor of English and humanities at the University of Chicago; he is planning a book about D.H. Lawrence...
With a mother's natural interest, Princess Grace of Monaco-Grace Kelly of Philadelphia, that was-stopped by the Marika Besdrasova ballet school one day last week to make a careful personal appraisal of how her two student daughters were doing. As a five-year-old beginner, Princess Stephanie Marie Elizabeth was still struggling with her jetés. But her older sister, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, displayed cool and graceful evidence that at 13, she has all the requirements for a professional career. Mother and father -Prince Rainier, that is-have no objections. As for Caroline...
...ground. The brass was sharp, the violins were too loud, and the popping corks of the gastroenterologists on the floor interrupted the performance every other minute. Arthur Fiedler's daughter made a valiant effort to narrate Peter and the Wolf as it was danced by the Boston Ballet Company, but somehow the piece was too contrived, too Leonard Bernstein-ish, too much an attempt to condescend to the masses. Or perhaps this reviewer is just too bilious...
...bare square outlined in red on the stage defined the Garden of Eden. There, a happy apple treeful of writhing serpents advised Eve to Do It, rather as if they were pushing pot. The discovery of sex gets staged as a sort of ballet of mass copulation. (Filmgoers can see the Open Theater perform roughly the same scene in Zabriskie Point...