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... a lava pond with more colorful Koi fish swimming around as if they were doing an aquatic ballet. A canopy of green ivy above filtered the morning s...

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... Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppelia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote. Also Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on one of Hoffmann's characters. Master Flea was published in 1822....

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...“Prophete” in which we did just that, the mare’s steps performing a powerful ballet guided solely by my legs and the ribbon. Again I glared at the me... ...ricks that I had taught Josephine over time. However, the remainder of the balletic freestyle dressage went well enough. I returned to the paddock t... ...ar. You must not miss it. And now, I must return backstage to my corps de ballet. I will see you soon, my friend.” When the second act began and ... ...entleman dandy. I wondered how I would keep the neighborhood soubrettes and ballet dancers from beating down the door to get at my majordomo. Gilber... ...re?” “Come to the opera house this afternoon. I’m rehearsing a new corps de ballet. One of those silly girls is bound to be taken with your handsom... ...lf and we said our farewells. I remarked on the way home that the corps de ballet had been very interested in him. “Oui, madame,” Gilbert sighed. “... ...’ve ordered that we all avoid that place,” he snarled. “We were watching the ballet rehearsal at Antoinette’s invitation,” I replied evenly. “I don’t ... ...; I have paid my calls. I have tried to talk about books, and the plays or ballet. But they just shut me out.” Having been an immigrant myself so ...

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... the heavens. Beneath every moon and beyond the stars dance within the sun’s ballet. Rainbows come from common Gods and taste the blood of an gentle s...

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...acks of blank prescription pads that he kept in his pocket. This particular poem was written in just such a spontaneous way, after seeing the Russian Ballet perform in Manhattan. Each of the 16 readers in this collection took the challenge to make the same kind of leap - reading it spontaneously. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake.)...

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...Un brillant notaire parisien, Alfred L'Ambert, épris d’une danseuse de ballet de quatorze ans est provoqué en duel par son rival turc après une altercation. Ayant perdu son nez au cours du duel, le notaire se tourne alors vers un chirurgien pour une greffe de peau. Le donneur est un auvergnat si...

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...nner, and will re- turn about three o’clock to dress, if she dances in the ballet this evening—as she will, to-day being Monday. This rat is already a... ...p on brandy—but it killed her in the end. Another thing! You have seen the ballet, and you’ll now see it defiling past you in its every-day clothes, w... ... where they want danseuses; she has not succeeded in the three towns where ballets are given; she has not had the money, or perhaps the desire to go t... ... a rat who becomes a marcheuse,—that is to say, an ordinary figurante in a ballet,—must have some solid at- tachment which keeps her in Paris: either ... ...nfluential in the Chamber of Deputies.” “And above these two rounds in the ballet ladder what comes next?” asked Gazonal. “Look!” said his cousin, poi... ... ministry would have one more journalistic enemy on its back. The corps de ballet is a great power; consequently it is considered better form in the u...

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...y? WINIFRED. Yes. (They begin to sing, dancing meanwhile, in a free little ballet- manner, a wine-dance, dancing separate and then together.) 21 DH L... ...ike gaiety. WINIFRED. I do love to dance about. I know: let us do a little ballet—four of us—oh, do! GERALD. What ballet, Winifred? WINIFRED. Any. Eva... ...RALD. She isn’t. She’s a flagrant amateur. (EVA plays; they dance a little ballet.) MR. BARLOW . Charming—charming, Miss Wrath:—will you allow me to s...

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...ous in his pocket, took Fougeres to the Opera. But Fougeres didn’t see the ballet, didn’t hear the music; he was imagining pictures, he was painting. ...

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... yawn; she ceases to invite us, and we are resigned. The last time I saw a ballet at the opera — oh! it is many years ago — I fell asleep in the stall...

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...ind the scenes at the Opera when the scene-shifters were preparing for the ballet. Flora was to sleep under a bush, whereon were growing a number of r...

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...o report, what my dreame was. I will get Peter 1741 Quince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be called 1742 Bottomes Dreame, because...

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...im to my sister, where he would see a pretty sort of society!—ac- tresses, ballet-dancers, elegant young fops, spendthrifts who are wasting their fort... ...lowed her to the rue Pastourel, where he found that the future star of the ballet was the daughter of a portress. T wo weeks later, the mother and dau... ...20 he had the plea- sure of seeing Florentine dance her first “pas” in the ballet of a melodrama entitled “The Ruins of Babylon.” Florentine was then ...

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...ickson Quartus, commonly known as Dick Four, was Aladdin, stage-man- ager, ballet-master, half the orchestra, and largely librettist, for the “book” h... ...pany could be easily assembled. The floor shook to the stamp-and-go of the ballet, while Aladdin, in pink cotton tights, a blue and tinsel jacket, and... ...wiggez-vous?” “Nous twiggons. Good enough. What’s the chorus for the final ballet? It’s four kicks and a turn,” said Dick Four. “Oh! Er! John Short...

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... then I will get againe with drinking, 243 picke out mine eyes with a Ballet- makers penne, and 244 hang me vp at the doore of a brothel- ho...

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... his great adversary Napoleon Bonaparte. Some, brought up as mountebanks and ballet dancers, were performing a figure dance (he regretted to observe, ...

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...orio of “Purgatorio,” which made such an immense sensa- tion, of songs and ballet-musics innumerable. He is a German by birth, and shows such an outra... ...essors conduct their academies on very opposite principles. Baroski writes ballet music; Thrum, on the contrary, says “he cannot but deplore the dange...

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...e end. At times he thought of nothing but the magnificent spectacle of the ballet in the great Inferno scene in the fifth act; sometimes the sight of ... ...the management anything, for the chorus and the orchestra and the corps de ballet are to take them whether they like it or not; but your paper is so c...

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...hole collection of pretty costume plates into the mysteries of the “Ussian Ballet” and the works of Mousso’gski and “Imsky Ko’zakof.” The bishop liked...

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...nkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in sh...