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Petra Petra (pē`trə), ancient rock city, in present-day Jordan, known to the Arabs as Wadi Musa for the stream that flows through it. A narrow, winding pass between towering walls leads to the open plain upon which stood the ancient city. The plain is surrounded by hills in which tombs have been carved in the pink sandstone. Van Noort tears up the floor and chews her shirt (above). Luke Miller places a teacup on the bottom of an inverted
1. To turn inside out or upside down.
2. To reverse the position, order, or condition of.
3. To subject to inversion.
n. (n dancer whose legs cling to him. Such whimsical tableaux round out the evening-length Cloudless by Susan Marshall & Company, which premieres at Dance Theater Workshop, March 8-18. A series of short, unrelated dance-poems that build in emotional force, Cloudless continues Marshall's fascination with the subtlety and complexity of human behavior. Dancers revel in idiosyncratic gestures, nuzzle into quiet transitions, shuttle about in space-devouring duets, and converge on each other in avalanches of partnered locomotion locomotion /lo·co·mo·tion/ (lo?kah-mo´shun) movement or the ability to move from one place to another.locomo´tivelocomo´tor. See www.dtw.org.
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Title Annotation:NEW YORK NOTEBOOK; dance theater workshop
Author:Pearson, Tom
Publication:Dance Magazine
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2006
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