Word: balletically
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...affects their growth system." There are no studies supporting that contention, but Christensen says there has not been enough time to assess yoga's long-term damage to young bodies. Hogwash, counter instructors like Marita Gardner-Anopol, who teaches yoga at preschools and elementary schools in New Jersey. "Does ballet interfere with natural changes in the body? Skiing? Ice skating?" says Gardner-Anopol. "Come on. Children are active from the time they are three...
...obsessiveness emerge images of seemingly effortless beauty. Zhang shows us the unedited six-and-a-half-minute sequence from the Mongolian shoot, a scene so breathtaking it will no doubt earn a place in the cinematic pantheon. Dazzling in red costumes against a pale yellow sun, the two women ballet rather than battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto the lens...
...CLERCQ, 71, lithe-limbed ballerina who, while on tour in Copenhagen with husband George Balanchine in 1956, contracted polio, which left her paralyzed at 27 at the peak of her talent and fame; of pneumonia; in New York City. In an eerie foreshadow, Balanchine in 1944 had choreographed a ballet in which he cast himself as a character named Polio and his incomparably elegant muse Le Clercq as a victim who becomes paralyzed...
...encore, we were treated to the "Serenata" from Stravinsky's Suite Italienne (an arrangement of several movements from the ballet Pulcinella). Perhaps not quite recovered from the meandering romantic excess of the Busoni, Schulte played the simple sicilienne with too much expressiveness, and was at times out of tune. However, his brilliant musicianship still made this a memorable end to a long and demanding concert...
...Napster after his kids told him how cool it was. Says his wife Mary, a busy antitrust lawyer: "We talked about forming a firm together but decided we preferred romance." She's clearly a fan. Seeing him in the courtroom, she says, is like seeing "Baryshnikov at the ballet...