Word: cavalierism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Based on E.T.A. Hoffman's 1816 story "Der Nussknacker und der Mausekonig" (The Nutcracker and the Mouse king), the ballet is divided in two acts. The first act enters on a Christmas party at the home of the Silberhaus family, where the mysterious Dr. Drosselmeyer presents his god-daughter, little...
The Waltz of the Flowers was well choreographed, and though the too-familiar music may grate on the nerves in crowded shopping malls, here it retains some of its magic when accompanied by dancers gracefully simulating the opening and closing of flower petals. In the final pas de deux of...
However, Long warned students not to be too cavalier.
Take the doctor. Horse-loving Harry Hyman's always been a hearthrob to the gals but has since settled down with an appropriately braying wife (Rebekah Shoaf '00). Somewhere in him, passion lurks, to even a cautious reading of the play, to the extent that we recognize it lurking even...
When Skelton was carried off the field after chugging down the field on a key 45-yard reverse in last season's finale against Yale with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, that pressure became markedly heavier. No more can Skelton run an out pattern with the...