Word: waltz
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...seemed to synchronize more successfully with one other. The latter half of the recital consisted entirely of popular scenes from the Nutcracker: “Snow,” “Spanish Hot Chocolate,” “Arabian Tea,” “Waltz of the Flowers,” “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy,” and “Coda”—which, strangely enough, was not performed to the traditional music entitled “Coda” or even the final...
...Florida, New York, and Los Angeles, practiced a lot, and decided that I would go for it. Last Monday, I officially became a professional ballroom dancer by logging onto the NDCA website, paying $70, and stating that I would compete professionally from now on.Now practicing their international standard waltz or tango for two hours a day, six days a week, Mariko and Peter plan on dancing professionally for awhile yet. With plans to teach at the Waltham dance studio where she currently practices, Mariko hopes to split her post-graduate time between teaching and competion.While I think...
...height they both produced delirious representations of sexual passion. The acrobatic lovers of Rodin's I Am Beautiful -the male figure hoists a bundled woman into the air-are emblems of himself and her. So are the dancers in the erotic cyclone that is Claudel's The Waltz...
...happened, the definitive version of The Waltz was not completed until 1893. By that time Rodin had decided not to marry the increasingly erratic and accusing Claudel and instead to return to his old mistress Beuret. Claudel would respond with her masterpiece of abjection, The Age of Maturity, a commission from the French government that Rodin helped her to obtain. A near life-size bronze, it shows a young woman on her knees reaching out vainly to a man being led away by another woman. This desolate ensemble was supposed to be an allegory of man's inevitable journey toward...
...suppose they danced a waltz...