Word: dancers
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...question must be asked: Where was the tambourine? Many of the most impressive parts of this variation typically come when the dancer alternates playing a tambourine with her hand, elbow, and pointe shoe, rapidly. Moore’s dancing, though technically impressive, seemed incomplete without this key prop...
Bobby (Nicholas A. Noyer ’09), a male dancer at the cabaret and part-time thug working for Ludwig, was perhaps my favorite character. Noyer made this role his own, and deserves high praise for the result. Although he was no small man, Noyer pranced about the stage like a graceful fawn, and was the highlight of the song “Two Ladies”—and just about every other scene...
...aesthetic illusion as clever as it is sexy. And then there’s the dancing—the gyrating and the hip thrusting that make Beyoncé’s videos so hot. This go-around is no exception; how could the meeting between bootylicious and belly dancer be boring? The pair is steamy writhing on the floor, grinding up against a wall, and shaking in the rain. And the song itself isn’t half bad—“Beautiful Liar” is sure to make the dance floor snap, crackle...
It’s not every day that a former principal dancer of the foremost classical ballet company in the nation comes to teach a master class at a place that values physics over pliés and government over grand jetés. Nevertheless, former New York City Ballet (NYCB) principal Heather Watts is in the middle of a stint as visiting lecturer on dramatic arts in the Harvard Dance Program, instructing a new ballet class on technique and repertory. Last semester, Watts taught an academic class at Harvard on the work of George Balanchine, the renowned choreographer...
...sweetness in sorrow, no matter how your child dies--on a battlefield, on a mission or on a Monday morning in German class. But there was something especially awful about meeting these students in the quick cable-news compression of remembrance and mourning. She was a belly dancer, he was a track star; there was also an Air Force cadet, a camp counselor, a songwriter--in every case a portrait of promise and purpose. They had not wandered into one of the nation's top universities by accident; they had engineered and calculated and coaxed their way into this school...