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Writer's pictureLauryn Johnson

NYCB Vol. 11 No. 8 - Bourrée Fantasque



Janet Reed & Herbert Bliss.

Photos by Roger Wood, 1949.

New York Public Library


On Balanchine's Bourrée Fantasque: "Last evening's audience guffawed, sighed, and cheered as the ballet progressed along an unexpected route from horseplay through tender romance to a flamboyant circuslike finish. The fun is spontaneous and not at all contrived, the romantic section is fresh yet easy in its movement patterns, and the closing polonaise incorporates practically every known trick for bringing down the house." --Walter Terry, New York Herald Tribune, December 2, 1949




Janet Reed & Herbert Bliss.

Photos by Roger Wood, 1949.

New York Public Library

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