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Romeo and Juliet was danced by principal dancers Julie Kent and Guillaume Graffin. Julie Kent was, in a word, stunning. Kent's Juliet was extremely delicate and tender and her incredibly thin figure folded and melted around Graffin. Her shy and coy youthfulness came through in each lift and embrace. Kenneth MacMillan's choreography is one of the most passionate that I have seen for this pas de deux. While it included sweeping lifts and movements across the stage, the most moving moments came when the two dancers were kneeling together at center stage and Graffin lifted Juliet over...
MONTREAL--Eric Houde and Jonas Hoglund each scored his first goal of the season in the third period to lift the Montreal Canadiens over the Calgary Flames last night...
...proposal would lift the protection on retirement savings for some income levels...
...came crunching down on my chest, and the old guy totally just freaked out and couldn't get it off and I started yelling "get it off, get it off," but then he just started yelling too, and the stairmaster chick had to come over and help us lift it off my neck. Yo, now I have to go all the way to the QRAC because I'm so embarrassed...
With her baseline, and the other's baseness, this was a parody to lift any student's heart, delightful both in its irreverence to the canon and to the disregard it shows for the seriousness with which that canon is treated around these parts. In their overhaul of the Bard, the RSC may have come closer to the original Shakespearean experience than we usually get. On the outside chance that The Bard is turning in his grave, though, no one seems to feel too badly since he never seemed the type to lie flat and complacent in the first place...