Clothing the Naked.(Costume and dance history)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
From: Dance Magazine
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Date: 10/1/2000
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Author: BARNES, CLIVE
WE GOT THE IMPRESSION that George Balanchine--that musical weaver of visual miracles and architectural fantasies--didn't give much of a damn for the gentle art of costuming. Practice clothes and leotards--that Spartan black and white of his imperial guard-- seemed, for the most part, good enough for him. Nor was his taste in original costumes very good-remember those first Kurt Seligmann costumes for The Four Temperaments, which made the dancers look like refugees from a peculiarly ...
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