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What is art? Or, more specifically, what is the art known as ballet? Is it a classical art, practiced and refined for centuries, filled with carefully measured plies and set to the most classic of classical music? Is it a modern art, a dramatic outlet for expression, sprinkled with eclectic costumes and moving semi-rhythmically to sounds rather than music? Could it possibly be--gasp--a fusion of both? Should a performance like that be even labeled "ballet...
...Boston Ballet, known more for tradition than innovation, manages to both evade and yet answer these questions with its partially-new production, Body Electric. Consisting of three main parts--the whimsical "Waterbaby Bagatelles," the jazzy "Four Hands," and the adrenaline-pounding "Celts"--the Ballet blends quirky modernism with rich tradition (not to mention audience favoritism). And the result? Not exactly mind-blowing, but solidly superb nonetheless...
With the world's current crop of elite male skaters all master technicians and wizardly athletes, the competition at the Nagano Olympics first appeared as though it would amount to a contest of aesthetics: the classical artistry of Russia's ballet-trained Ilia Kulik, a first-time Olympian, pitted against the don't-fence-me-in aggressiveness of Canadian Elvis Stojko, a black belt in karate and three-time world champion. Both men performed well and cleanly during Thursday's short program (the 2-min. 40-sec. execution of eight required elements), but Kulik led the event, suggesting a judicial...
...Mexican migrant and immigrant grape workers and for improved labor conditions (never mind that most grape workers chose not to join the UFW). It is less clear what motivated groups like UNITE, Education 4 Action, Phillips Brooks House Association, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance, and Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan. (Those last two seem especially peculiar, but hey, why exclude people from the party...
...hero wasn't Scott Hamilton; it was Bruce Lee. Elvis earned an advanced black belt in karate at age 16, and while other skaters were bringing elegant dance moves into their choreography, he started incorporating punches and kicks. "I tried ballet," says Stojko unapologetically. "Didn...