The January 1961 issue of Dance Magazine included this satirical contribution from Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, then a handful of years into penning his long-running comic strip for the Village Voice, in which this unnamed dancer was a recurring character. (He died last January at age 95.)
This satirical cartoon by Jules Feiffer appeared in the January 1961 issue of Dance Magazine. From the DM Archives.
Elsewhere in the issue, Lupe Serrano (then a principal with American Ballet Theatre) shared her family recipe for a Chilean corn pudding, and was mentioned in Ann Barzel’s Looking at Television column, having recently appeared on “The Bell Telephone Hour” with Jacques d’Amboise in the Black Swan pas de deux. Profiles of noted jazz teacher and choreographer Gus Giordano, ballerina Irina Borowska (who graced the cover), and Graham star Mary Hinkson were also included, as was a review of the first half of New York City Ballet’s blockbuster nine-week season (which saw the premiere of Liebeslieder Walzer, in which, Doris Hering wrote, Balanchine “peeled the form down to its essence and set it in exquisite balance with the music”). And in a lengthy account of a conversation between editor in chief Lydia Joel and newly appointed Bolshoi Ballet School director Sophia Golovkina, the two debated the distinctions between American modern dance and ballet.
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