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...ballet has reached out to pop. Balanchine used Gershwin, Paul Taylor the Andrews Sisters, Alvin Ailey Count Basie and others. And of course the great rock performers like Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger have set the standard of movement in that particular pop art. Still, the Joffrey evening radiates grace because it embraces a challenging world with very little in the way of snobbery or preconception...
...Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. With Machines of Loving Grace on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Avalon, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. For more information, call...
...danced by Paul Thrussel, and his enchanted princess (Adriana Suarez). In this pas de deux, the lifts and leaps break boundaries in choreography noticeably lacking in the rest of the performance. The following pas de deux between the Prince and Princess, while technically excellent and performed with subtlety and grace, lacks the strength and sense of energetic excess captured by the Blue Birds...
Danielle Kwatinetz, as Karen, confronts a much more complex role. She manages to sustain unruffled simplicity and grace even after several unsavory revelations strip her of her soft-spoken naivete. Her naturalistic acting admirably reflects Karen's more thoughtful character...
...lights are raised over all of them. Instead of posing in darkness, the women freeze in place when another character takes over the narration. Here the unity between their lives is best demonstrated. Maya says, "I do what is necessary...it is not true that I never cry." Grace admits to herself, "I did not know how strong I was." All of these women have struggled to achieve the identities they now have. Even Erin hints that she may return from the abyss to the living...