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Other groups performing were the South Asian Dance Organization, the Hellenic Society, Kuumba, the Harvard Vietnamese Association, Native Americans at Harvard-Radcliffe, the Chun-Sadance troupe, Ballet Folklrico, the Society of Arab Students, the Expressions Dance Company and the Asian American Dance Troupe...
...inevitable hit, a galvanizing eruption of energy, panache and arrogantly sure-footed stagecraft that comes at a time when theatrical dance is in the doldrums. There hasn't been anything like it in years--10 years, to be exact, for it was in 1989 that Jerome Robbins put his ballet career on hold to direct Jerome Robbins' Broadway, a song-and-dance spectacular that theater buffs still recall with awe. The comparison is inescapable: Fosse was the only other Broadway choreographer with anything like Robbins' stylistic individuality and clarity of purpose, and he has had no successors...
...most choreographers, Fosse spun his idiosyncratic moves out of the peculiarities of his own body. "He was a bit bent and crooked by nature," recalls Reinking, "and somewhat pigeon-toed." The style that resulted, says Fosse dance captain Brad Musgrove, was the antithesis of the expansive approach of classical ballet: "It's all turned in. You're knock-kneed, you roll over on your ankles, you're sitting into your hip, you're arching your back, the elbows are in, the wrists are flexed. You have to work exactly the opposite from the way you're trained...
Some of the company's best dancers, interestingly, have a ballet background. Desmond Rich-ardson, formerly with Alvin Ailey and now a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, tears up the joint in Percussion 4, while Elizabeth Parkinson, an ex-Joffrey ballerina with legs as long as War and Peace, is volcanically sexy in Sing, Sing, Sing. But the Broadway gypsies are just as satisfying, especially Jane Lanier and Scott Wise, who bring welcome warmth to Fosse without compromising its essential tough mindedness...
...young Patrice Munsel, sounding as ravishing as she looks, is singing an aria from Charpentier's Louise. Suddenly it's 1986, and members of the Bolshoi Ballet are dancing an exuberant pas de deux. H.G. Wells' time machine? No, Classic Arts Showcase: MTV for gourmets. The commercial-free service can be hard to find--it airs at odd hours, mostly on PBS or public access cable channels--but the search yields a feast. Opera, dance, chamber music, theater and more are presented in a beguiling spread of video clips. So surf that dial, comb that TV Guide. Caruso and Domingo...