Ms. Steinbacher played a program sufficiently varied to show what she could do in several styles, old and new, and among her assets are a finely polished technique and a beautifully varied palette of timbres.
Handsome, but not untouchably so; charming; infallibly courteous; a superb partner with a virile stage presence and a reliably plush, polished technique, he has been one of the standard-bearers of Ballet Theater's reputation for brilliant male dancers.
He returned to the Olympics in 1992 at Albertville, France, with polished starts, a refined technique, and an older style of sled.
See, for example, "The Intruders" at Hyde Park Antiques, a big picture of two dogs and a doe-eyed pony caught destroying someone's picnic painted with polished technique by Richard Ansdell, a 19th-century English academician.
So while "Shindig" is a showpiece for the women's polished technique, there is no question that "The River," sparked by a fabulous performance from Uri Sands, a former Ailey dancer, is the major piece.
The mostly Russian-speaking audience honored the orchestra with a slow clap, and the players showed off their polished technique and tonal beauty again in the encore: the sprightly Moderato from Rossini's String Sonata No. 3.
When it comes to plays and musicals, "the artifacts" are introduced to the committee of critics by a pale, beaten-down troupe of performers (Hanna Cheek, Tobias Burns, Amy Newhall) who sing, dance and act with the polished technique and cool personality of robots trained at a dystopian Juilliard.
Bianca Bulle and Cinquemani brought polished technique to the Act 3 Russia Dance (an interpolation), though their flimsy costumes didn't look especially Russian and putting any of the so-called national dances on pointe is a miscalculation of their function in the ballet.
The easy elegance, the polished technique, the playfulness and the passion have been buffed to a high gloss in "Counting the Ways," Mr. Albee's blithely serious portrait of a marriage.
