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...Fluid movement and smooth transition from action to action are some of the most notable characteristics of a talented ice skater. Achievement of that fluidity is difficult, though, and comes only with tremendous practice...
...just from the orchestra pit. And the visual scene was intensified by the moving colored lights and the looming shadows of the dancers projected onto a backdrop. And the choreography even stretched the body lines out of frame; a prevailing mode of movement used shoulders and elbows in a fluid geometry of angles and wedges thrust into shace...
...contrast to solo dancing, ensemble work requires each individual dancer to be as unobtrusive as possible, presenting the onlooker with the paradox of human forms assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in their white skirts like blown dandelion seeds. On the other hand, Laura Young's Swan Queen was, for all her technical competence, thoroughly disappointing. The role is a showcase of breathtaking choreography, but Young moved from pose to pose as though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense...
...parties, their own intramurals, their own squads in inter-collegate sports--including their own crew shells--and their own literary magazine. Ever since Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, led his chosen people out of the wasteland of the Quad to the chosen Yard, these traditional but mostly fluid divisions have become solid barriers to interaction between the classes. Recent innovations like closing the Union to upperclassmen during lunch, keeping the Union open on weekends(so freshmen can avoid the truma of eating in the big bad Houses), and the now-legendary Fox plan, have turned a de facto separation...
...glittering allegro. Here Wilkins's interpretation was scrupulously authentic, notably in the crisply dotted rhythms, and the orchestra responded with elegance and delicacy. The one glaring weakness here and throughout the entire piece came from the crucial (and difficult) D trumpets: instead of flashing above the orchestra with fluid precocity, they squeaked and quavered vaguely in the background...