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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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...La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas est une comédie-ballet de Molière (musique de Charpentier et ballets de Beauchamp), commandée par Louis XIV pour le remariage de son frère avec la princesse palatine de Bavière, après son veuvage. Cette œuvre nous montre une provinciale, ent...

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...The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière collapsed during his fourth performance as Argan on 17 February and died soon after....

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...that it has insights and profundities that none can equal. There's lots more, of course. Book reviews and humor, plus a look back at how a Russian ballet dancer rekindled India's love of the art and brought Indian dance onto the world stage. It's all there in the current issue of Hinduism Today, where you go to stay in touch with Sanatana Dharma. In print and online....

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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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... 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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...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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...traw boater with her striking, striped summer dress. Hockey, riding, tennis, ballet, Christian youth groups her favorite pursuits, a forgiving, thoug... ... cricket unequivocal delights. Yet other clubs too she wants to try: French, ballet, tap and IT, singing and chess, and what about pottery? She'll gla...

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... type of work that one does, but often it revolves around academic interests, so the biological researcher or the carpenter with interests in ballet... ...ltzers of the State Opera, the symphony of strings, the enthusiasm of the conductor and his audience. Then there was the Jerome Robbins modern ballet... ...s Fancy Free. Then there was Anna Pavlova in the Dying Swan and Rudolf Nureyev in Stone Flower. Sounds like many of my peaks were in opera and ballet...

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... huge buildings housed innumerable activities that the child could pursue: ballet, sports, astronomy, physics or chemistry, music composition and pe...

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...e message and content of the anti- play: “the anti-characters of this anti-ballet in this anti-society will embody the grotesque and the disgust to s...

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...lised manic defenses: Megalomania - our missiles are more powerful than yours, our ballet is more elegant than yours; Paranoia - the West is out t...

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... through the majestic gardens. The Koi fish huddled, and swam like a colorful ballet. A few of them stretched their bodies out of the water, as if t...

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...hirling mass. The strands writhed, coming first together and then apart in a ballet of throbbing blue. One at a time she threaded them down her arm an...

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... met at the zoo in front of the spider monkeys. From there they went to the ballet. At the ballet he spoke to her in Russian. She thought of it as ...

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...ance are where we are most likely to find bulimiacs (models, actors, dancers, ballet dancers). By her own admission, Princess Diane is a bulimiac. T...

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...ater develops, however, that her success lies rather in the di- rectiou of ballet dancing than that of opera-singing. The shqok to the social prestige... ...coldly technical than soulful or appealing. His own' Novellette and Air de Ballet, however, were what might be termed "•catchy." and were on the whole...

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...to display the astonishingly variety of their movements. "To this grand female ballet succeeded one performed by fifteen men. Some of them were old; b...