Going to extremes.Extreme technique took center stage at the Youth America Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. , held in April at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall The Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall that is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It was created from the donations of Alice Tully, a chamber music benefactor and patron of the arts. . Young dancers tossed off pirouettes and barrel turns as if they were barre exercises. Extensions swung to impossible angles, and leaps reached heights that caused gasps and boots. The audience cheered such feats, but the judges leaned toward traditional purity represented by 16-year-old Seo Hee, from Washington, D.C.'s Universal Ballet Academy, whose clean, graceful Paquita variation earned the Grand Prix. But for most contestants, athleticism trumped artistry. It was left to American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. principals Gillian Murphy and Ethan Stiefel. who performed a pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or from Le Corsaire. to remind viewers of artistry's elusive magic. |
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