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...Come Fly Away, set to the songs of Frank Sinatra. Ol' Blue Eyes has been an obsession of hers for years--this is the fourth dance piece she's created for his music--and she's ready for the critics to complain that she's repeating herself. Yet this high-low priestess explains her new approach--the show is set in a nightclub and follows the relationships of four couples--by citing writers like Tolstoy and Balzac (she's been devouring both lately) as well as the Ernest Borgnine movie Marty (which provides the model for one of the couples...
Dance, if you haven't noticed, is hot. It's not the high-art sensation it was in the '70s, when Robbins and George Balanchine were working, companies such as the Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey were drawing hip new audiences, and stars like Baryshnikov were celeb-magazine fodder. Instead, it has glided into the mass-audience mainstream. Broadway shows like Billy Elliot and Fela! (the Afrobeat musical choreographed by Bill T. Jones) put dance front and center. The ballet-like triple axels of Olympic figure skaters drew huge ratings at the Winter Games. And TV hits like Dancing with...
...wanted to do Dylan's love songs, she says, but was dissuaded for commercial reasons. Now she's returned to the basics: romance and movement--and winning over the audience. "It's called 'Make the folks feel a little better for an evening, and leave on a high,'" Tharp says. And if you miss the Balzac references, she'll probably forgive...
...Choi's sensitive-burnout passion is the movement's story. He gets choked up about replacing McDonald's cuisine with freshly prepared, price-competitive, high-end food. "It's convenient to eat horrible food, and it's so difficult to eat great food. It's O.K. to eat flaming-hot Cheetos and never read books or eat vegetables," he says. "This is where we've come as a country, and I'm not cool with...
...meat that allow Choi to charge such low prices. "A Caesar salad at a lot of places is $12, but a Caesar salad costs $1.80 to make," he says, putting out a Marlboro. The insane markups come from a tired old formula, he continues: "Get a space in a high-rent district and hire [ultra-opulent interior architect] Adam Tihany to design it. It costs $1.5 [million] to $2 million for you to open a restaurant. So what's your attitude? 'We have to gouge those m____________.'"(Watch Roy Choi turn street food into high...