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...over-sized men’s shirts—diverted attention from a unique and difficult choreography by Boston Ballet’s Gianni DiMarco. Choreographed to the music “Recycled Air” by the Postal Service, the second piece was a disappointing classical pas de deux. Dancers Pilar A. Ochi ’08 and Keller were hardly able to demonstrate their adept skills, in part, limited by the choreography of Lila K. Gollogly ’04. Countless repetitions of the same tricks—Ochi’s beautiful splits and grand jet?...
...Similarly, last summer's hit show Dancing With the Stars served as a remedial lesson in the notion of danse a deux. To 21st century kids, pairs dancing must at first have seemed as bizarre and uncool an activity as synchronized swimming. For a couple of decades, dance has been self-expression, of an orgiastic, onanistic sort, not connection and communion with a partner of a different gender. Yet the show demonstrated, as Take the Lead does, the blend of precision and passion in an expert dance number. One girl in Take the Lead, watching a couple execute...
...movement is rigorously athletic and ultra-contemporary, with flamboyant leaps that corkscrew in the air and hyperextended limbs thrown in all directions. Jazzy inflections color brilliant shifts in dynamic and direction, imbuing the whole piece with a kind of exuberant nervous energy. In particular, the male pas de deux towards the end of the performance provides the most dramatic and skillful interpretation. Mark Morris’s “Up and Down,” the best executed of the two world premieres, provides an impressive display of dynamic dancing and emotional tension through its skillful performers and innovative...
...also known as “Journey/Travelers”) brought a burst of color and energy. The red, orange, and yellow costumes accented the Tarzan-esque music, and the dancers marched on stage—dancing in unison first and later in canon.The lyrical pas de deux, “Will You Settle,” choreographed and performed in partners by a jeans-clad Walker and David L. Blazar ’06, made excellent use of the stage—and the two dancers showed expressive interaction with one another. However, the ending, perhaps composed...
...they do not like each other very much. Harmony is only intermittently an issue between friends; the intractable messes of human coexistence are left for enemies to hammer out. In attempting to do this most difficult thing, Mandela and De Klerk have been forced into a fascinating pas de deux, coordinating their steps while not so secretly resenting the necessity of their partnership. ''Mandela and De Klerk,'' says A.N.C. spokesman Carl Niehaus, ''were delivered to each other by history.'' Neither one, in the season of their triumphs, seems grateful for the gift of the other. But those triumphs are immense...