Preview: Grand Rapids Ballet Company's Flickers.When artistic director Gordon Peirce Schmidt put a moustache moustache Pitchfork, Whale's tail Interventional cardiology A popular term for the distal bifurcation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. See Collateral circulation. on dancer Attila Mosolygo, he saw "the spitting image spitting image n. A perfect likeness or counterpart. [Alteration of spit and image, from spit, an exact likeness, as in the very spit of; see spit1. of Charlie Chaplin." Perfect, he realized, for Flickers, a 45-minute silent-movie ballet that is full of both dancing and slapstick slapstick Comedy characterized by broad humour, absurd situations, and vigorous, often violent action. It took its name from a paddlelike device, probably introduced by 16th-century commedia dell'arte troupes, that produced a resounding whack when one comic actor used it to . Like the choreographer's other recent works, Flickers reveals his fondness for period pieces. First performed in 2003, the ballet has drawn new audiences who relish the dancers' comic flair. Dancers' Theatre Series, November 17-20, Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , MI; www.grballet.com. |
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