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...tradition. It opened in Dublin early last year with a cast of 26 dancers and musicians (the company now numbers 85). The production's signature is scarcely controlled energy and bravura. Legs fly, but arms too are often loose and vividly expressive. A piece for the male corps called Thunderstorm is a consistent showstopper. It is performed a cappella, the tapping, stamping feet providing the accompaniment. As the dancers traverse the floor, the rhythm they kick up resembles a storm in all its fury, followed by the growls and eddies as the storm regroups. When conventional, cheerful instruments join...
...performances. One exception was the tune "Don't Rock the Jazz Boat," a staple of Jones's groups through the years. While Latin beats adapted to the jazz context often come across as trite and excessively happy, Jones metamorphosed the bossa nova of this chart into a menacing Amazonian thunderstorm. Distant rumblings on the toms grew louder and louder during Jones's solo, and as the storm came crashing down, lightning forked through the cymbals and snare...
...first log cabin." Her epic mud wrestle with the giant bear Thundering Tarnation has the rowdy, mile-wide quality of the Paul Bunyan tales: the combatants fall asleep after days of pummeling each other, and "Tarnation snored louder than a rockslide, while Angel snored like a locomotive in a thunderstorm. Their snoring rumbled through the earth, tumbling boulders and shaking trees loose. By morning, they had snored down nearly the whole forest...
Nonetheless, there are times when the sight of the iron-grey ceiling we used to call the sky, and the voice of the meteorologist calling for another thunderstorm, and the thought of pulling on sodden boots for a trek across campus conspire to make Harvard students wish that they had chosen to pursue their higher education in warmer climes. Suddenly, California earthquakes don't seem...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--When USAir Flight 1016 flew into a down-draft during a thunderstorm, it felt as though "you were suspended from a string and somebody dropped you," a pilot testified yesterday...