KENT PROCLAIMED NATIONAL TREASURE.DANCER ALLEGRA Al·leg·ra A trademark for the drug fexofenadine hydrochloride. fexofenadine hydrochloride Allegra, Telfast (UK) Pharmacologic class: Peripherally selective piperidine, selective histamine KENT--along with former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Mayor David Dinkins, TV journalist Mike Wallace and humanitarian Elinor Guggenheimer--was honored as a national treasure at New York's posh University Club on May 16. The Seasoned Citizens Theatre Company, which sponsored the event, is a troupe of artists ages 65 to 88 who perform cabaret-style entertainment in nursing homes, schools and hospitals. Their annual event honors senior Americans who have made extraordinary contributions. A principal dancer with the New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. for thirty years, Kent preceded Suzanne Farrell as Balanchine's favored ballerina. Kent has written an acclaimed autobiography, Once a Dancer ..., and an exercise book, Allegra Kent's Water Beauty Book. For the ceremony, New Republic dance critic Mindy Aloft wrote, "Allegra Kent is a genius at ballet dancing and a very great artist, with an astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. range: elegant, romantic, whimsical, haunted, yet always impeccably classical. She lit up the ballets from within, showing audiences the formal choreography as something urgent and vividly alive, and she is irreplaceable." In accepting the award, Kent said, "All we really have is our body and its muscles." About her work with water exercises, she said, "I did invent the water exercises thirty years ago. But the Greeks prepared for war in the water 2,000 years ago. I really wasn't ahead of my time. I was behind." She showed a film clip of a pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or from Balanchine's Midsummer Night's Dream. Partnered by Jacques d'Amboise in the film, Kent embodies all the adjectives that Aloff proferred. In the last moments of the pas de deux, she falls backward with dating surrender into her prince's arms. When d'Amboise shifts this swooning swoon intr.v. swooned, swoon·ing, swoons 1. To faint. 2. To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy. n. 1. A fainting spell; syncope. See Synonyms at blackout. 2. creature from one arm to the other, it seems as if he were shifting the wind. |
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