Word: ballets
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...began to assert itself. In seventh grade his class was assigned to write a short play, classmate Peter Blauner remembers, and Kennedy wrote a play about being unable to write a play. "He was riffing about the various characters he'd tried to create," says Blauner, "from a ballet dancer to a deranged pretzel vendor in Central Park. It was really funny...
...Secretive all-female club that meets weekly to talk ballet, opera, Chanel and Ungaro over tea and lace cookies...
...that the middle-aged Mikhail Baryshnikov has retrofitted himself as a modern dancer, what young hotshot is going to fill his ballet slippers? A.B.T.'s Ethan Stiefel debuted in the Baryshnikov role of Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove in New York City last week, giving a performance that had the stylistic curiosity, the eye-grabbing virtuosity--everything, in fact, but Misha's sly wit. There will never, ever be another Baryshnikov, but Stiefel, 26, is well on his way to becoming the great American male ballet dancer of his generation...
What Canby missed is that it's the moments between the plot points that are worth watching. It was the ballet of precision violence that flew off the screen; every combination you can create in Mortal Kombat can be found in a Lee movie. And even with all the special-effects money that went into The Matrix, no one could make violence as beautiful as Lee's. He had a cockiness that passed for charisma. And when he whooped like a crane, jumped in the air and simultaneously kicked two bad guys into unconsciousness, all while punching out two others...
...studied ballet for 10 years, eventually ending up at the School of American Ballet in New York City, before she got "kicked out" because her 5'3" stature was considered "too short" for a budding ballerina. But this setback did not deter Lan for long. "I went next door," Lan recalls matter-of-factly. "Next door" turned out to be the Juilliard School of Music, where Lan studied viola and piano, performed at Lincoln Center, and eventually produced a prelude for the viola quintet and a chant and recitative for the viola and piano. These works were recorded...