Dancers Over 40."Prime Time, was the title of an engaging program assembled by Dancers Over 40, a consortium of mature dancers and choreographers. Some of the offerings, notably I Thought You Were Dead and Maple Leaf Rag The "Maple Leaf Rag" (1897) is an early Ragtime composition for piano by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all Ragtime pieces. , revealed the humor of aging. Others, like A Thin Frost and Les Espaces du Sommeil ("The Spaces of Sleep"), were serious statements performed by over-forty but scarcely over-the-hill dancers. Still others, like Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Talent and The Latin Quarter Showgirls, indulged in showbiz nostalgia. In I Thought You Were Dead, created and performed by Alice Teirstein and Stuart Hodes, two former lovers met accidentally in a ballroom. Her gown and his tux were just a little attic-worn; so was their dancing. The more they became enmeshed en·mesh also im·mesh tr.v. en·meshed, en·mesh·ing, en·mesh·es To entangle, involve, or catch in or as if in a mesh. See Synonyms at catch. in the sweet tentacles of The Blue Danube Waltz, the less one could bear to let them go. Maple Leaf Rag found a pair (Jerane Mickel and Matteo) communicating via their castanets castanets (kăs'tənĕts`), percussion instruments known to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, possibly of Middle Eastern origin, now used primarily in Spanish dance music or imitations of it. . He seemingly dominated with his deep-throated nattering, while her occasional well-timed "toc" put him in his place. Thirty years ago Frances Alenikoff hoofed and huffed and let us all know that she was proud of her age-defying energy. In excerpts from Re-Membering she was pretty much on the same track, only there was now less cavorting and more talking. (That happens with time.) Around the same period, Mata and Hari used to concoct con·coct tr.v. con·coct·ed, con·coct·ing, con·cocts 1. To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking. 2. playful mime comedies. Their Looking for Talent, reconstructed by Zoya Leporska, lovingly recalled the theme of lecherous lech·er·ous adj. Given to, characterized by, or eliciting lechery. lech  er·ous·ly adv. theatrical managers hiring a talent-free stripper in lieu of two hardworking dancers. The Latin Quarter Showgirls did the some. More lively but lacking in focus were Lars Rosager's ballroom couple in While You're Dancing and Prime Time, a bobby-soxer routine co-choreographed by Shelley Frankel. I'm not sure what Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. de Lavallade, Gus Solomons jr, and Dudley Williams were up to in Solomons's poetically titled A Thin Frost. They howled, sprang from their chairs, and spewed forth shards of unfocused emotion. Gary Galbraith and Karen Potter in Sasha Spielvogel's Les Espaces du Sommeil seemed endlessly in pursuit of each other. Her windswept departure suddenly brought him to reality. From seedlings as varied as these, it will be interesting to see how future Dancers Over @O programs develop. There's a lot to be said for aging. |
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