WHITE!" the audience roared in a unison so fervent it made the Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s seem diffident by comparison.
Mr. Baynes sends the other three couples leaping on stage in a unison pattern that dissolves in circular runs.
Just once, near the beginning of the piece, all the performers gathered in a unison dance, to which everyone had contributed movement ideas.
There are sections where the dancers battle to gain control of the seesaw's momentum, others where they move as a collective body, swaying and slithering in a unison duel with gravity.
The ballet's most tremendous image is not of heroine or hero, but of the corps de ballet of feminine Shades, descending a slope in slow zigzagging single file, one entering after another, in a unison accumulation.
The voices at the end of "Simon Boccanegra," crying out for peace; the voices at the end of "Un Ballo," overcome by the spiritual greatness of a dying man; and, most unforgettably, the voices of the Hebrews, in "Nabucco," remembering, in a unison line, the destruction of Jerusalem.
