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...playful eyes belie his now-serious demeanor, making him appear as if he’s always in on a private joke. He’s wearing a knit sweater—blue, of course, the color he says he wears everyday to minimize fashion faux pas...
Adrienne Sharp’s “White Swan, Black Swan,” opens with an image capturing the sublimity of the dancer’s body in motion. New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancer Joanna is watching from the wings as her boyfriend Ridley performs a pas de deux from George Balanchine’s “Jewels...
While Joanna is enraptured by the lyricism of Ridley’s dancing, she expresses her frustration with her inability to be “there with him” as his pas de deux partner can be. This polarizing divide between performer and spectator is one with which any theatergoer is familiar...
This punchy, almost breathless cadence is seductively accessible to the balletomane and casual observer alike. Sharp adroitly collapses the distance between performer and spectator, suggesting that we can all relate to the pas de deux’s pursuit of perfect synchrony between individuals...
...implications of the Penn president’s faux pas may extend to Harvard—where Gutmann was an undergrad in South House, now Cabot, and where she earned her doctorate in 1976. Gutmann, who was a finalist for the presidency when Lawrence H. Summers was selected, is now seen as a potential successor to Derek C. Bok when he steps down from his position as interim president in July...