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...brutality, and attempted rape. Drive-by shootings aren't the kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity and enthusiasm. To do it with HRDC's limited resources...
Blending the fast-paced athleticism of modern funk, the vibrant energy of contemporary jazz and the classical grace of lyrical ballet, the Crimson Dance Team soared to first place yesterday in the New England Regional Dance Competition, held at Boston College High School...
...added that the team benefits from the strong technical background of their members-most are associated with either the Mainly Jazz Company or the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company...
...about 1:15 am (EST) Wednesday they will begin an extremely complicated ballet in space as they approach the Mir," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin of the planned rendezvous between the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station. "We've never done anything quite like this. Flying over Russia and in range of a Russian control station, the Atlantis crew will maneuver the 100-ton shuttlecraft, with this big docking tunnel sticking 15 feet out of its payload bin, very slowly -- at the rate of an inch per second -- through a forest of antenna and solar arrays. It looks...
...dancing mattresses, played by assorted Boston Ballet Artists, are the funniest part of the evening as they awkwardly shuffle around in their sleeping caps. One can only imagine how difficult it is to dance wearing a mattress but the sleepy bunch pull it off, milking every last comic moment of their costuming...