Word: opara
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After playing to a scoreless first quarter, Princeton finally broke the game open with three big plays for touchdowns. First, a 33-yard pass from Crenshaw to Chisom Opara finished off a 10-play, 73-yard drive for the Tigers. Then, on the second play of their next drive, Brandt broke free down the right sideline for a 54-yard touchdown...
...something also changed about the dancers themselves. Youths are now capable of astonishing technical feats-just as they are in various Olympic sports. Too often both choreography and coaching emphasize virtuosity in what might be called a can-you-top-this derby. Violette Verdy, an elegant Paris Opara ballerina who came to City Ballet in the '50s and is now a teaching associate, ponders the differences between her own, gentler dance culture and the harder, high-tech world in which this generation must work. "We live now under so many pressures. This is a time of technique. Speed becomes violence...