News of the Century.Great Moments from the pages of Dance Magazine These excerpts from historic news articles from the pages of Dance Magazine and The American Dancer retain their original spelling and punctuation. Unless noted, photos are from Dance Magazine's archives. 1939 AUGUST--Nazi Germany has announced a strict censorship of all ballroom dancing, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. recent press reports. Dances of foreign origin are to be most affected.... NOVEMBER--After endless tribulations caused by the difficulty of extricating scenery, costumes & dancers from among Europe's bloody confusion, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Ballet company formed in Monte Carlo in 1932. The name derived from Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which dissolved after his death in 1929. Under René Blum and Col. W. sets its N.Y. opening for Oct. 26 in the Metropolitan Opera House.... DECEMBER--By gradual stages during the past three seasons, unionization has come upon the professional dance concert field in the shape of the American Guild of Musical Artists The 'American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO (AGMA) is the American labor union that represents 8,000 opera singers, ballet and other dancers, opera Directors, backstage production personnel at opera and dance companies, and figure skaters. According to its website (www. ... 1940 JANUARY--Ballet news these days seems to center around the Ballet Theatre. At least no one can deny that this organization is making history as its roster of imposing names grows.... APRIL--Katherine Dunham and her dance group settled down for something like a regular run at the Windsor Theatre.... New numbers to be introduced include Bahiana (new to 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 ) and a shortened version of Bre'r Rabbit and de Tah Baby ... JUNE--The Vic-Wells ballet company Noun 1. ballet company - a company that produces ballets troupe, company - organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" , appearing at Sadler's Wells, has been established for five years and has created a "ballet public" in London of about five thousand.... JULY--Carmen Miranda has just completed a three week engagement at the Versailles and is leaving for a vacation in Brazil before starting rehearsals for a Broadway revue.... AUGUST--Erick Hawkins made his debut as a solo dancer at Bennington College Bennington College, at Bennington, Vt.; coeducational (originally for women); chartered 1925, opened 1932. Its curriculum is based on individual interests and needs. Theatre June 13.... OCTOBER--Ballet dancers, trained since childhood, make an excellent living in the movies despite the fact that only some half dozen pictures a year call on their services. The reason: although audiences see them for only short sequences, a few minutes of playing time on the screen, they work for weeks, often months, making one picture. It's the rehearsal that counts.... 1941 JANUARY--Walt Disney had sent through an order that the artists work from the world's greatest ballerina for The Dance of the Hours. He requested that the crew saturate sat·u·rate v. Abbr. sat. 1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly. 2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity. 3. To cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance. themselves in entrechat en·tre·chat n. A jump in ballet during which the dancer crosses the legs a number of times, alternately back and forth. [French, earlier entrechas, alteration (influenced by entre, , elevation and points before tackling this ballet sequence for Fantasia fantasia (făntā`zhə) [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent. .... Col. de Basil's Original Ballet Russe had played Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. before, acquiring hosts of balletomanes in the film colony. ... Those assigned to the Concert Feature (as Fantasia was known around the studio ...), turned out en masse for the opening night. And it was generally agreed that topping the array of ranking stars in the troupe was Irina Baronova.... Mlle. Upanova blossomed forth that afternoon. And it is this Mlle. Upanova a la Baronova which the public sees in Fantasia.... MAY--Anton Dolin has leased Ted Shawn's farm, "Jacob's Pillow," and together with Alicia Markova will teach and give summer recitals. Other artists who will appear in these recitals are Ruth St. Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. , Paul Draper, Frederic Franklin, Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille Noun 1. Agnes de Mille - United States dancer and choreographer who introduced formal dance to a wide audience (1905-1993) Agnes George de Mille, de Mille , Barton Mumaw, Lisa Parnova, Ted Shawn, Charles Weidman, Paul Haakon, Lucia Chase, Annabelle Lyon, Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing, Nina Strogonova, and Anthony Tudor.... The ballet capitol of the western world will be, for the summer at least, that one concentrated spot in Massachusetts, and New York will take on the appearance of a desert.... 1942 MAY--Friends and admirers of Alicia Alonso will remember that a year ago this luckless ballerina was forced to retire after two brilliant seasons with the Ballet Theatre and a season of the Ballet Caravan because of an injury to an eye. Two operations performed on this member caused her to convalesce con·va·lesce v. To return to health and strength after illness; recuperate. back home in Cuba, where she was accompanied by her husband, Fernando Alonso, also a former member of Ballet Caravan and Ballet Theatre. After nearly a year of waiting, she has begun to dance again, and the Havana press is all aglow with reports of her well-known and remembered technique and aplomb a·plomb n. Self-confident assurance; poise. See Synonyms at confidence. [French, from Old French a plomb, perpendicularly : a, according to (from Latin ad-; see .... SEPTEMBER--Agnes de Mille is on the west coast, touring with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, fitting in as many rehearsals as possible of the new ballet she is doing for them on the subject of a rodeo, and tentatively entitled just that.... 1943 JANUARY--Argentinita's company suffered a casualty when the army withdrew Federico Rey from her carefully built ensemble of three.... Her new partner bows in on January 7 or thereabouts there·a·bouts also there·a·bout adv. 1. Near that place; about there: somewhere in Kansas or thereabouts. 2. About that number, amount, or time. . His name is Jose Greco.... MAY--A Famous First in Dance History took place on April first, when the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe gave a gala performance at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for 1500 of Our Boys.... 1944 JANUARY--Yes, sir, here is the answer to your question, "What has become of my favorite ballet dancers?" You'll find them in Broadway shows, in the movies or on the road. Here are some of them: Baronova, rehearsing for a new show; Riaboushinska, in "Waltz King"; Toumanova, in the movies ... The new shoe rationing includes: 1) dance slippers having a cattle hide upper, 2) ballet slippers and toe shoes having leather soles and 3) tap shoes. FEBRUARY--Pearl Primus, especially, is a valuable young leader in the contemporary dance because her work is so completely free from the foils and foibles, the fetishes and sophistications of our city life, today.... MARCH--"Fancy Free", new ballet by Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, will have its world premiere on April 18th under the composer's baton.... MAY--The ballet girls at Radio City have been raised in salary from $36 a week to $42 a week, and the Rockettes from $42 a week to $45.... 1945 FEBRUARY--Merce Cunningham gave a solo recital in New York on January 9th.... |
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