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ALLET DANCER
£VER since Louis XIV did it, some folks have
danced in ballet and others have said (pri
vately, of course* that it looked like sissy work.
So when famed Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
started a five-month American tour, the camera
went back stage, found ballet no sissy game but
downright hard work.
The company travels from Monte Carlo to
London to America, often spends vacation
periods rehearsing. The dancers, mostly young
Russians, practice exhausting fundamentals,
then rehearse hours daily under sharp-eyed
Leonide Massine. This in addition to regular
performances of three or four ballets each.
Result: They do gracefully and "easily" such
feats as these, which only strong men and women
can do at all.
The maestro, Massine, gets $500 weekly, makes np
the dances, directs troupe, is top dancer himself.
Flanked by dancer wife and by stage manager, be
watches rehearsal. _
Looks eosy? But Dor
othce Etheridge of Louis
ville 'one ot eight Amer
icans in the company' is
os heavy for Kostenko to
heist as on outsize ice
coke 'about 108 pounds'.
I A dancer's feet, knotted
bv constant exercise since
childhood, are her first
care. She receives new
slippers every 12 perform
ances innless she's a bal
lerina and rates new ones
each show).

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