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...frivolous" student activities undertaken by the remaining (presumably serious) students at this university. He rests on the unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux, but I would submit that one who views either activity receives equal parts of intellectual and visceral stimulation...
...renowned for his fluid movements onstage, but this was ridiculous. Mikhail Baryshnikov's repertoire was strictly freestyle, as he took a break from the American Ballet Theater's six-city tour to try a little whale dancing last week at San Diego's Sea World aquatic park. Trading his tights for a wet suit, the A.B.T. director jumped into a training tank for a pas de trois with two 900-lb. Pacific whales. An avid supporter of the Save the Whales campaign, the Latvian fed the leviathans some fish and performed an impromptu water ballet with them. "They...
...fourth place to first on the strength of a bravura jitterbugging performance to Gershwin and the blues. Thomas "just got inspired" after watching Boitano, and the next night, instead of playing it safe to protect a slight lead, she came on strong to a combination of Duke Ellington and ballet music in a program that contained four triple jumps, including a tricky triple-double toe-loop combination. "I don't believe it," said a tearful Thomas, who is the first black world champion ever in skating...
...pattern or making it serve as an organizing element for arbitrary action. In Jealousy, a solo set to Handel, he fills out the score with large, writhing moves and smaller, intimate ones that serve as a kind of punctuation. In Mort Subite (Sudden Death), made for the Boston Ballet, he uses a repeated figure in Poulenc's Organ Concerto as a signal to the dancers to turn and change direction--often leading to their abrupt disappearance from the stage...
...brimming piece of choreography, filled with wit and invention and a certain brash confidence. At 29, Morris is the hottest young choreographer in the country. His Seattle-based troupe of 13 dancers is in heavy demand, and other signs of success are visible: bookings in Europe, commissions from established ballet companies (Boston, the Joffrey), a program on next season's PBS Dance in America series, invitations to pump some life into grand opera productions. (Morris choreographed the Dance of the Seven Veils on alternating sopranos in the current Seattle Opera production of Strauss's Salome...