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...always when Dancer Uday Shankar of India returns to New York, a capacity house turned out last week to watch and hear the dances he has constructed during his absence. This time his new offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva, whirling and gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great...
...cast), marveled also at the Elephant-Demon as danced by a 21-year-old stripling named Madhavan. Young Madhavan has studied dancing in India since he was 12. This is his first trip to the U. S., his first season with Shankar who considers him a better dancer than himself. Critics, mindful of the subtlety of the older dancer, his hands which can all but hiss like snakes, disagree. But they praise Madhavan for his energy, his strong, fluid movements, the ease with which he holds himself in desperately hard positions...
...Hindu dancer, Shan-Kar, and his ballet are to give performances is Symphony Hall on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Shan-Kar is a truly remarkable dancer, and his interpretations combine beauty with a strange Oriental fascination. The musical accompaniments are not the least interesting part of his performances, and he (or rather his publicity agent) beasts that six hundred instruments are used...
LICKS CHAMP," a shot of a husky dancer clamping a leg lock on a wrestler's neck; "SHIP WRECKED!" with a preview of drowned bodies cast...
...standard figures on which figure skating is based are not a test of skill, but the vocabulary of a form of self-expression which for sheer elegance compares to ballet dancing as the ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty, as it was Dancer Anna Pavlova's, is a swan dance. On the shrewd assumption that a cinema public which had never before investigated figure skating needed to be educated before witnessing the rarest flower of the art. Producer Darryl Zanuck insisted that she save it for a subsequent picture. What her cinema...