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Nora is a self-centered, live-for-today, would-be dancer (if only Mama and Uncle would give her the chance). Carnesale succeeds in portraying the shortsighted selfishness of her character in the first act, and her depiction of the various emotions of a 17-year-old are well executed through most of the play...
Being a professional ballet dancer is tough too, and the challenge must be met during adolescence. There is, of course, the need to develop perfection of technique. Add to that the care of one's body, the avoidance of drugs and drink, rent payment and roommate control. Most important, however, is the reinvention of oneself as an alluring theatrical image that rewards the eye -- and blinds it to the charms of the next performer in line...
Healy has performed in many prestigious roles including Clara in the New York City Ballet's "The Nutcracker Suite," and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." Healy, a Princeton undergraduate, also began dancing as the principal dancer in London Festival Ballet at only age 15. There is strong connection between dancing and ice skating, Healy says...
...texture of life and the myriad gestures that reveal class and work. He made art from things that no painter had fully used before: the way a discarded dress, still warm from the now naked body, keeps some of the shape of its wearer; the unconcern of a dancer scratching her back between practice sessions in The Dance Class, 1873-76; the tension in a relationship between a man and a woman (Sulking, 1869-71) or the undercurrent of violence in an affair (Interior, sometimes known as The Rape, 1868-69); a laundress's yawn; the stoned heaviness...
Despite tales of wild disregard for the law, the waitress says she can not serve those who do not show acceptable i.d. In the back of the club, another dancer, wearing fatigue patterned bikini briefs writhes to the music...