The truncated versions of "Hamlet" and "Othello," called divertissements, will focus on specifics of the well-known Shakespeare heroes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Castile Blaze and Sauvage, and many changes in the score, such as divertissements made up of the dance-music in "Preciosa" and "Oberon," and of "The Invitation to the Dance," scored by Berlioz. ❋ Unknown (1876)
Indeed, among the divertissements for which the society became famous back in the '20s and '30s were its "Illustrator's Shows." ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
Other times, he said, she has had to choreograph divertissements from scratch, "using the building blocks of the period and creating something new." ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)
"A lot of these operas are filled with dance 'divertissements,' which are so crucial to the emotional pacing of these works," said Opera Lafayette artistic director Ryan Brown. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)
Gone were the jewel-like divertissements, the subtle layers of allegory, the sophisticated use of leitmotif, all replaced by bland pastiche. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The rest of the programme is made up of divertissements from BRB's current repertory: the sublime pas de deux that closes Ashton's The Dream; dances from Act I of the great Petipa/ Delibes comedy Coppélia; the magisterial grand pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty Act III and an excerpt from Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The north-east leg features Balanchine's comic gangster ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue along with its own mix of divertissements: Act II of Coppélia, the clog dance from Fille Mal Gardée, the central pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto set to Shostakovich and the Sleeping Beauty grand pas de deux. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Also in the programme is a new work by former Royal Ballet dancer Viacheslav Samodurov set to music by Domenico Scarlatti, plus a series of divertissements, including the spectacularly acrobatic pas de deux Spring Waters. ❋ Unknown (2010)
More than 200 heirs to titles or large estates were killed in World War I.Mr. James also notes that the selfishness and idleness of so many noblemen tended to be forgiven because the aristocracy's sporting divertissements and colorful eccentricities brightened the national scene. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lately, it seems that all the pundits have taken to all commenting on the most recent news development and no one takes time to try to draw the public's attention to something which could help them learn about and then think about any one of these never ending divertissements, but we'll break ranks and run this column about General Motors even though last week's news is sooooo last week. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Where SKIDOO goes astray is not in having establishment movie stars dabbling in counter-cultural amenities, but in taking an interesting premise and other intriguing divertissements and trying to make a comic musical out of it all. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mr. Tomasson's unmemorable choreography for the ballet's least narrative and most potentially poetic moments -- in the Snowflake and Flower waltzes and in most of the "national" dances as divertissements -- is far from helped by the camera work. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As with general managers, college athletic directors might accept blacks to coach divertissements, such as basketball or track, but football is an executive position. ❋ Unknown (2008)
What I am proposing, instead, is a return to the good old days of American politics, when our forefathers knew the preliminaries, as hallowed be their name, were appetizers, lagniappe, divertissements. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Such are some of the divertissements of Yezo travel. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
I proceeded to explicate both the meaning and derivation of the phrase with a concise synopsis of the story of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” as recorded in the celebrated collection of Arabic tales, The Thousand and One Nights, a massive, handsomely illustrated volume of which—as translated by the renowned Orientalist, Antoine Galland—had been one of the beloved divertissements of my childhood. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)
