Shards of Shambards.A stunning scalloped scal·lop also scol·lop or es·cal·lop n. 1. a. Any of various free-swimming marine mollusks of the family Pectinidae, having fan-shaped bivalve shells with a radiating fluted pattern. b. fence of linked dancers greeted the eye in Christopher Wheeldon's new Shambards for New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. . The formation broke apart, as did almost every sure thing in this ballet. Ingenious partnering for Jock Soto and Miranda Weese mysteriously tuned violent; later the two crashed in on a lovely quartet. James MacMillan's gigues, waltzes, and lonely Satie-like piano music were darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. by sirens and rumbles. In the end another fence, this time in two vertical lines, created an aisle for Soto and Weese to complete their cataclysmic cat·a·clysm n. 1. A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change. 2. A violent and sudden change in the earth's crust. 3. A devastating flood. duet: He dragged her upstage while dancers melted to the floor one at a time. The jaggedness of different realities interrupting each other pushed Shambards into a category one could only call postmodern ballet. |
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