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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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...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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...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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...o. What hast heere? Ballads? 2082 Mop. Pray now buy some: I loue a ballet in print, a 2083 life, for then we are sure they are true. 2084...

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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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...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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...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...

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... the reason of white 412 and redde. 413 Brag. Is there not a ballet Boy, of the King and the 414 Begger? 415 Boy. The worl... ...the 414 Begger? 415 Boy. The world was very guilty of such a Ballet some 416 three ages since, but I thinke now ’tis not to be foun...

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...oks, a chest or two, and a flaring picture cut from the advertisement of a ballet, was the room’s inven- tory in the matter of furniture and ornament....

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...at the sight of the national banner sustained by the whole strength of the ballet, and special searchlights and illuminations amazed the watching ange...

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...serves him right if you have,” said Henrietta while the curtain rose for the ballet. 250 Portrait of a Lady Isabel saw no more of her attributive vic...

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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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... tradesman’s wife, a woman of easy virtue, a duch- ess or a brazen-fronted ballet-dancer, an innocent young girl or a too innocent foreigner, can appe...

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...omen. She turned sharply round to return to Lisbeth at the tea-table. This ballet-dancer’s pir- ouette, whisking her skirts, by which she had overthro... ... in sorrows, he has neglected her for prostitutes, for street-hussies, for ballet- girls, actresses—Cadine, Josepha, Marneffe!—And that is the brother... ...n Betty comes up from the third cellar at the touch of a fairy’s wand in a ballet-extravaganza. After finishing what he had to do at the Courts, Victo...

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...us. The dancing-mistress, French, of course, had trained them, it was more ballet than quadrille, and they looked uncommonly pretty. Uncle William gra...

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...ess of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Degas— “Ballet Rehearsal on the Stage” Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State Univ...

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...ssian entertainments the prince 5 Tolstoy liked best French actresses and ballet dancers and white- seal champagne. Vronsky was used to princes, but,... ...unday. Stepan Arkadyevitch went to the Grand Theater to a rehearsal of the ballet, and gave Masha Tchibisova, a pretty dancing-girl whom he had just t... ...gift of the necklace he wanted to arrange with her about meeting after the ballet. After explaining that he could not come at the beginning of the bal... ...nial to him, but he was going out, he said, to a soiree, in reality to the ballet. Levin only had time to tell him he was happy, and that he loved him...

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...ast together.” And Natasha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When R... .... 59 Tolstoy Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes...

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...gner’s Trilogy, and the bathers in the second act of Les Huguenots, to the ballets of water nymphs in our Christmas pantomimes and at our variety thea...

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...n it? ARKADINA. Yes, entirely. [She puts on a new bandage.] TREPLIEFF. Two ballet dancers lived in the same house, and they used to come and drink cof...

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... Mr Savoyard, that what you are about to see will be like a Louis Quatorze ballet painted by Watteau. The heroine will be an exquisite Columbine, her ...

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...e, big or little, passionate or passionless, lasting or passing (he kept a ballet girl himself, though he was the father of a family, so he was lenien...

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...and has your daughter been to see you lately?” The porter’s daughter was a ballet dancer. “When is she to come on week-days? They’ve their lessons to ...

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...th with merry counte- nances. The count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna. He drew him- self u...

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... On the French theatre, likewise, I had seen from my youth upwards, if not ballets, yet pas seuls and pas de deux, and had noticed in them various str...

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...large sums of money, which came from some invisible source; then theatres, ballets, women, then again riding on horseback, waving of swords and shooti...

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...ces of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All...

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...hood to understand or resent the wit. Little did he know that this was the ballet-like interlude in a great and terrible tragedy, whose first act was ... ...let of Pearls CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BAL... ...que on Wednesday night, and must dress at once to rehearse her part in the ballet specially designed by Monsieur. Her first impulse was to hurry to he... ...ll tell you nothing; but if you would only interfere to spare me from this ballet! It is Monsieur’s contrivance! Ah! Madame, could you but speak to th... ...elestial dance. This dance had been the special device of Monsieur and the ballet-master, and during the last three days the houris had been almost da... ...ron hurried to bring her wine, the lady revived her with essences, and the ballet-mas- ter clamoured for his performers. Ill or well, royal ballets mu... ...rus, and the misery of the throbbing, aching head must be disregarded. The ballet-master touched the white cheeks with rouge, and 100 Yo n g e she st... ...r. ‘Then,’ she said, ‘that was why you made Monsieur put Eustacie into the ballet, that they might not go on Wednesday!’ ‘It was well hinted by you, d... ... ‘What did Love look like in the pool? Had he wings like the Cupids in the ballets at the Louvre?’ asked Berenger provokingly. ‘I tell you I saw nothi...

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...Mr. Mills, my rivle in Halbany; Mr. Macauly, (who wrote that sweet book of ballets, ‘The Lays of Hancient Rum;’) & the great Mr. Rodgers himself. “The... ...; and, law bless you! in three weeks from that time, she could look at the ballet as she would at a dancing-dog in the streets, 363 Burlesques and wo...

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...ge for some moments empty of all business. To remedy this, a bevy of green ballet-girls came forth and pointed their toes about the prostrate king. A ...

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...both with merry countenances. The count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna. He drew himself up,... ...t together.” And Natasha rose and went out of the room on tip- toe, like a ballet dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When R... ...e was best. Having lifted her head and let her arms droop life- lessly, as ballet dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes...