Word: ballets
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...Homebush, it was clear that nothing had been left to chance. "Don't forget to look for your audience leader," the crowd was told before proceedings began, "to know when exactly to take your cues." But in the ceremony's genuinely showstopping moments - as Meryl Tankard's aerial ballet turned the stadium into a giant fishbowl, as an Olympic flag unfurled from the one end of the stadium across the athletes like the spume of surf - the only appropriate response...
...glaring menace, Karelin--who weighed 15 lbs. at birth--has a gentle side. A fan of opera (particularly Mussorgsky), ballet and theater, he is especially fond of poetry and has written verse. This Bunyanesque figure is a husband and the father of three children, including a daughter who was born this year...
...most unexpected nomination of the MTV Video Music Awards highlights dancing's renewed prominence. Alanis Morissette's clip So Pure, which the singer directed, is up for Best Choreography in a Video (Robinson and Henson are also nominated; Landon twice). Morissette took ballet, jazz and tap-dance lessons as a child. "Now I only tap-dance if I'm waiting in airports," she says, laughing. In So Pure she shows off her skills. The video, choreographed by Kevin O'Day and Anne White, features Morissette dancing through the decades--at a '50s sock hop, at a '90s rave. She taps...
Elsewhere this season, classical-ballet whiz Christopher Wheeldon has choreographed Vivaldi's ever popular The Four Seasons for the Boston Ballet (Sept. 28). The Kennedy Center in Washington presents The Legacy of Paul Taylor, a mini-festival featuring Taylor's latest, Fiends Angelical (Sept. 29-Oct. 8). And the Carolina Ballet, America's most promising young company, based in Raleigh, N.C., premieres a staging of Coppelia...
...regard George Balanchine as the choreographer of the century--any century--Washington will be the place to be in September. The Kennedy Center's Balanchine Celebration features such masterpieces as Agon, Divertimento No. 15 and The Four Temperaments, performed by the Miami City, Pennsylvania, San Francisco and Joffrey ballet troupes. It also marks the official debut of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet Company (Sept...