Word: footwork
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...Excellent music choices and clean and well-rehearsed footwork made the numbers by TAPS consistently entertaining. An easy-to-watch, smiling stage presence clearly conveyed how much fun the dancers were having. They set a lively tone for the evening with their company number, which Megan M. Powell ’08 choreographed to Lily Allen’s “Knock ‘Em Out.” The dancers executed the choreography with enthusiasm and exhilarating precision, an impressive feat for a company piece...
...sound. Caitlin D. Driscoll ’11, Jennifer N. Kurdyla ’11, Natalie J. Peters ’09, Jayne Wolfson ’08, and Maya herself admirably combined the music’s more laid-back elements with the choreography’s demanding footwork...
...women from both Mainly Jazz and TAPS collaborated. In beautiful and brightly colored traditional Irish dance costumes, choreographers Siobhan P. Connolly ’08, Whitney L. M. Kress ’08, Meaghan J. Beattie ’08, Driscoll, and Fitzgerald performed complex sequences of incredibly fast footwork while keeping their upper bodies still with seeming ease. At the end of the piece, the music cut out and the dancers closed with an amazingly unified and increasingly rapid sequence of steps...
There's some fascinating YouTube footage of you playing Bjorn Borg in the 1970s when you were in your late 30s. Yeah, I beat him a couple of times, once on clay. He was a great counterpuncher, had a lot of speed, a lot of footwork. That was a lot of fun. I enjoyed competition. Got the adrenaline going. You get out there and do the best you can. Against Borg, I came to the net... had to volley aggressively and keep him off balance. And you had to cut out errors. That's the thing that everybody...
...shift pit. “With each bounce, everyone says the word ga…ga…ga,” Levin-Gesundheit slowly enunciates, illustrating the suspense between bounces. After the third bounce, the game is a free-for-all, and Levin-Gesundheit briefly demonstrates the speedy footwork and hand-eye coordination necessary for victory in this below-the-knees game. Seem a little intense? Relax. Levin-Gesundheit assures us that “some would say it’s both infantile in name and practice.” Not all of the participants share Levin-Gesundheit?...