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The Balanchine piece, some excerpts from Who Cares?, had a similar air of lyrical lightness. A more traditional ballet danced en pointe, Who Cares? allowed Harvard’s ballet dancers to showcase their technical ability. While the dancers illustrated the requisite technical level for this piece, some of the...
In the first act, a peasant couple entertain local nobility. The wife, portrayed by Sarah Lamb, must perform a series of difficult, technical maneuvers: She hops across the stage en pointe while performing a ronde de jambe. Such flawless, joyful execution is simply awe-inspiring.
Of course, limitations in genre or character type don’t have to equal boring movies. In the hands of a skilled writer, such limitations often yield greater creativity, as writers come up with new twists on old conventions. In Cusack’s case, witness Gross Pointe Blank...
Cut to ten years later (long enough for them to reign in their haircuts, not long enough to be any less attractive). Sara has eased up on her kooky fate-talk but has filled the void by moving to San Francisco and becoming engaged to a bizarre Yanni-like musician...
In other words, it was music defined by class. In the corner of southeastern Michigan where I grew up, the music you listened to had everything to do with class--in a new way that transcended the old English sense, which had to do only with how you were born...