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But the dulcet strains of music were believed to be the most powerful of all cures, and certain peculiar tunes came to be regarded as especially effective, and hence became known as Tarantella!
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Soon a rising star in the main Joffrey company, LeBlanc became a darling of New York critics in ballets that showed her lightness and attack - "La Vivandiere," Balanchine's breakneck "Tarantella" - and also developed her dramatic side in works by Jiri Kylián, and as the lead in John Cranko's "Romeo and Juliet."
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The Tarantella is a low dance, confiding of turns on the heel, much footing and mapping of the fingers - f.
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"WHEN IN ROME: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK" Deluxe Digital Edition will add a number of tracks from the film's score, including renditions of such Italian favorites as "Tarantella" and "Ave Maria."
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All three casts I saw of "Tarantella" (to music by Louis Gottschalk, here played solely by piano) happily tore up the stage.
A Tharp Ballet That's Brand New Robert Greskovic 2008
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During a much needed interval in the dancing he advanced to the edge of the verandah and as a solo played Stephen Heller's "Tarantella," which crowned his triumph.
The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896
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The concert also includes the European ballet classics "Tarantella," from
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Antony Tudor, re-staged by Hilda Morales who worked closely with Tudor as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater; "Tarantella" from the third act of "Napoli,"; and excerpts from
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The concert also includes the European ballet classics "Tarantella," from
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Mr. Vasiliev's own choreography, full of big Bolshoi lifts and dramatic moments, doesn't add up to much, but was performed with conviction, notably by the New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder in "Tarantella," and by Mr. Vasiliev and Ms. Khokhlova in the evening's pièce d'occasion set to a Chopin "Ballad No. 1 in G Minor" (played onstage by Max Barros).
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