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...From ballet dancers to chess players to people in the military, many transfers do bring some special experience that students directly from high school cannot," Green says. "Some transfers have very well-developed thinking along a particular line and have already decided the particular interests they have come here to develop. Some bring non-traditional experience beyond the classroom--they have started a business or worked professionally as musicians...
Picabia saw machinery as the prime metaphor of modern society and, particularly, of love. His most telling machine images were about sex. They present the act of love as a ballet of soulless machines, pistons inside cylinders, valves opening and closing, cogs driving other cogs. Though parts of his erotic gizmos are identifiable, their functions, beyond pushing, sliding and transmitting fluids...
...what happens behind the datajack? As simple as a network appears when you are at the keyboard, your every action online involves a complex ballet of data jumping from point to point in virtual space...
...expressed they are. With four sets of couples swirling and writhing in neon-colored Spandex bodysuits to thoroughly unconventional ballet music, excessive subtlety is never a problem. The blatant eroticism sparkling on stage may make the more conservative ballet-goers shift uncomfortably in their seats, but the strength and expressiveness of the dancers is unarguably remarkable. Some of the more enjoyable pieces are the ones that explore the differences between the friendships of men and those of women. Yet one of the most glorious dances in the entire ballet has to be the final number, in which the couples simultaneously...
Although all of the ballets in "Boogie, Brass, and Blue" are fine performances in and of themselves, it is difficult to say what exactly ties them all together. Self-dubbed "A Celebration of All-American Dance," the show is not decidedly un-Amercan, but it can hardly be called patriotic. Perhaps under a different title and theme, the performance could flow much better and more appropriately. But for now, perhaps audiences should ignore the false advertising, and simply attend "Boogie, Brass and Blue" not to see one enthusiastic show, but rather three excellent-though entirely unrelated-forms of ballet...