Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gift-giver's hands, heightens the drama of desire central to the story and offers a new and unusual combination for a pas de deux between an older man and a young girl. This pas de deux is not the only new choreography in this year's performance. New Snow and Battle scenes in Act I and a new Angels scene at the beginning of Act II are a testament to the creative power of Artistic Director Bruce Marks who has rechoreographed the entire production...
...powerfully ends with the new Snow scene after the nutcracker has turned into a prince and taken Clara to an enchanted forest. Trinidad Sevillano and Patrick Armand, as the Snow Queen and King, dance the newly choreographed movements with awe-inspiring strength and grace--not an easy task with snow falling throughout the scene, creating a slippery floor. The sweeping arm gestures with delicate bourre leg movement perfectly echo the motion of falling snow while the intertwining dancers surrounding the queen and king create spacial patterns on stage that mimic the delicate shape of a snowflake. Act I closes...
...most sublime memory of freshman year: There are so many. A safe answer would be the first time it snowed and the entire class of '94 went outside to play. Everyone was covered in snow. Afterwards, my little dormmates and I congregated in our common room for cocoa and a fire in the fireplace. It was very cute...
...island, the green of Central Park, the shimmering top of each skyscraper.) On cloudy days, I spot the shadows of clouds on the land far below. On rotten days, the plane flies above the weather. Below you, stretching out forever, is a floor of cloud that looks like snow...
...cloudy winter afternoon, Florann Greenberg, a teacher at P.S. 14 in New York City, noticed that her first-grade class was growing fidgety. One girl, dropping all pretense of work, stared at the snow falling outside the schoolroom windows. Annoyed, Greenberg asked her, "Haven't you seen snow before?" The girl whispered, "No." Her classmates began shaking their heads. Then it dawned on Greenberg: of course these children had never seen snow; almost all were immigrants from Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Immediately, she changed the lesson plan. New topic: What is snow? How is it formed...