Word: pavlova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troupe is one of the best this country has ever seen with the Pavlova-like Markova and perfectionist Barnova in most of the crucial positions. Choreographers Fokine, Massine, Dolin, and Nijinska deserve an equal share of the credit for a large part of the success of the Ballet Theatre is due to their interpretations. Possibly the only weak point in the show is the orchestra, which isn't large enough to handle some of the music. But the Ballet Theatre gives the rare combination of classical favorites and the most modern ballets masterfully carried out on the same program...
...greatest choreographer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A rebel, he organized an "underground" ballet movement in the early 1900s. In & out of the good graces of the Bolsheviks, he fled to the U.S. in 1919. Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka...
...ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini for seven years...
...Hurok bagged Dancer Anna Pavlova, who called him "Hurokchik." In the next four years her tours, on which he often accompanied her. netted the two of them $500,000. Two other Hurok dancers were the late Isadora Duncan, who fortified herself with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir...