Word: ballets
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...world it is. At the beginning of the novel, Andrew and Joey are as married as a gay couple in America can be. Joey is an arty, tempestuous, hot-blooded Cajun and Andrew a sweet, meek, well-organized Asian American. Joey, at the make-or-break moment of his ballet career, wins a prestigious grant to study Balinese dance and leaves Manhattan's West Village for the island with Andrew in tow, hoping to create a ballet that can make him the next Balanchine...
This is of no consequence to Benigno (Javier Camara). Sexually innocent, he learned caregiving by tending his invalid mother. He has transferred his skills and affections to Alicia (Leonor Watling), a ballet dancer struck down in an auto accident. He scarcely knows her. He fell in love with her from afar and exchanged only a few words with her as he quietly stalked her when she was still vital. Now he chatters endlessly to her--mostly about music, plays and movies, including an erotic silent film, brilliantly concocted by Almodovar, in which a tiny, shrunken man is seen traversing...
...writer is current ballet mistress and former director of the Harvard Ballet Company...
...Zhang now steers clear of controversial subject matter, embracing instead projects that take risks in their technical execution. In 1999 he mounted an epic production of Puccini's Turandot in Beijing's Forbidden City. Last year he directed a ballet adapted from Raise the Red Lantern. The central government has conscripted him to craft national propaganda: he directed videos for Beijing's Olympic bid and Shanghai's successful application to host the 2010 World Expo. This year he's at work on an "ecofriendly" song-and-dance show for tourists produced by the Guangxi provincial government...
Yamaguchi was a three-sport varsity athlete during his high school years at the boarding school Deerfield Academy. Now he is an officer of the Harvard Ballet Company, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company, a prolific choreographer and a guy who can ride a 10-foot unicycle. All thanks (except for the unicycle part), he says, to a wrestling coach in high school who encouraged him to dance. Though he approached dance at Harvard somewhat slowly, only performing in a handful of shows his first semester compared to his 10 shows on average every semester since...