Word: ballets
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...that third martini last night. Was she at the club for business or pleasure?—both, really. A job offer worth millions, but she wasn’t hearing it. The club had been packed, and Antoinette and husband had joined in the erotic ballet on the dance floor, freakin’ it as the top executives in the publishing industry bristled at her rejection. And now this—the story that would be like a rock thrown at a beehive. Antoinette shifted her focus from the world outside to the interior of her spacious office. Lining...
Schneider’s hands are a space where strange figures play. Probably very few of these children were aware that their hands contained exclamation points, pyramids, spider webs, ballet dancers or veins of gold. The charlatan photographer brings all these things to light. One can imagine a fly, with its UV vision, seeing much the same thing as it is about to be swatted. In this sense the images are very inhuman, since they require the unnatural eye of a camera to be seen...
...ballerina-turned-hip-hop teacher has been offering the class since the Oct. 3, and draws on her experience from the casual dance classes that she taught at Harvard before she graduated last June. As an undergraduate, Santoro danced with Expressions and co-directed the Harvard Ballet Company her last three semesters. Like a scene straight out of “Save the Last Dance,” Santoro explains how she danced with the Boston Ballet School for 11 years, but began to break out of her classical training as she developed a love of hip hop and modern...
...final section of the show is a rock ballet, “Warning This May Cause,” choreographed by a professional choreographer Derrick Sellers, and complete with a light show and music by Björk. The frantic, almost violent tone of the ballet is a stark contrast to the fluidity of the previous piece. When the dancers open their mouths, there is almost a bestial quality to them; when they assault the stage with baseball bats, they assault the senses of an audience not used to movements so powerful and abrupt. This piece, the most challenging...
...motion. Towards the right side of the canvas, the lines degenerate into a kind of mob chaos, as they begin to overlap and move less smoothly and more abruptly. Consisting of only two colors and a single type of line, Williams manages to convert her canvas into an orchestrated ballet...