And she wouldn't have entered her profession at all if it weren't for a scantily clad dance line called the Roxyettes.
Their two-hour version of the "Ring" cycle, set to Georg Solti's classic recording, is more Regietheater than you might expect; Siegfried wears a T-shirt reading, "HERO," and the Valkyries do a Busby Berkeley-style dance line.
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Yang controls the freakishly macabre dance line with a MIDI controller that she uses to send pulses of electricity through the lifeless amphibians.
"We're talking about a social hall that would seat about 325 people and have a dance floor for line and ring dancing," Mr. Koplow said.
In a dance called "Fall Line," presented at Dance Theatre Workshop in 1981, Streb "put up a slanted board, a ramp," the critic Deborah Jowitt, who reviewed "Fall Line" for the Village Voice, told me.
On a blue-green background, black hieroglyphic figures blazed in red join leaping black deer in a dance of anarchic lines.
Inside, more than a dozen photos showed her at work: rehearsing a dance sequence; declaiming lines to her co-star, James Mason, and her director, George Cukor; slumped exhausted on a sofa.
