Known for her highly-trained eye, meticulous attention to detail and feather touch, Maria is an expert motivator who encourages pupils to foster respect for their bodies while surmounting perceived limitations.
We saw Fitzgerald on a deserted range, wearing a double-breasted overcoat, with a guard's back, slanting flap pockets and cuffed sleeves, and a long lapwl rolling to the lowest button, his car had feather touch hydraulic brakes and no-draft ventilation; his raxor blades had invisible edges, his whiskey perfection in taste, his shorts had crotch comfort; and his mattress was tuftless.
Her themes were generally serious but nearly always handled with a feather-light touch.
Mr. Fan brought steely power and a feather-light touch to Prokofiev's bristling Sonata No. 3.
On Tuesday, the pianist Alexei Lubimov was featured in the Piano Concerto in D major, to which he brought a feather-light touch, a limpid radiance in the slow movement and a frolicsome energy in the Hungarian rondo finale.
A seductive forcefulness soon becomes predictable, though the dancers -- particularly Ana-Maria Lucaciu and Acacia Schachte -- are absorbing as creatures who contrast a heavy use of weight in the lower body with a feather-light touch in the upper.
With such a strong theme, there is always a risk that the inspiration will overpower the collection but that was not the case here as Kaito Hori and Iku Furudate referenced the continent with a feather-light touch.
Developments include a focus on falsetto (courtesy of drummer Matt Helders and bassist Nick O'Malley), a feather-light touch of the Velvet Underground (Mad Sounds), and a sexual frisson Jarvis would trade his sauciest wink for.
As fiction, though, it is thoroughly delightful, evoking a vanished gilded age with impertinence but never contempt (and with a feather-light touch; the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, for example, appear literally as a minor impediment to Lacey's bicycle ride down the primrose path).
