Word: pas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bette Midler of dance. "I just don't think ballet is as narrow as many people do," says Tharp. An unabashed eclectic, she does not hesitate to combine a Las Vegas chorine's high kick-or a baseball pitcher's windup-with a classic ballet pas. The result eludes stylistic categorizing, yet remains instantly recognizable as Tharp choreography...
Harvard students have a reputation for being lousy fans. Cool dispassionate observers rule the roost at Harvard Stadium. Clever, cryptic cuts dominate conversations at Soldier's Field and a social faux pas is admitting you're even considering going to the football game before Saturday noon...
Feeling guilty is a faux pas, like hiring the wrong decorator or choosing an inappropriate wine for dinner...
...also a tender portrayal of the Swan Queen, and the audience gave her nearly 20 minutes of cheers and bravas. For those in search of novelty, there was a first look at a potentially exciting new partnership. Gelsey Kirkland was dancing, for the first time ever, in a showy pas de deux from Le Corsaire, with that ubiquitous guest artist Rudolf Nureyev. All smoldering fire, Nureyev and the ethereal Gelsey, a lass with a very delicate air indeed, looked well together, and the audience loved them...
Swirling Sequence. At the gala, he appeared twice, the first time in the Don Quixote pas de deux with Noella Pontois, a soubrette-style dancer from the Paris Opéra Ballet. After one swirling sequence of pantherlike turns, he landed - not just on one knee as most dancers would, but on one knee with the other leg fully extended. It was a daring variant on a familiar bit of acrobatics, since Baryshnikov is quite likely to break an ankle if his timing is a split second...