Its dancers' first thought is for correctness, fidelity to the academic technique.
By the same logic, dancers performing Ratmansky's ballets are getting a sort of master class in the academic technique.
She's barefoot, and much of the time her style looks free-form, improvisatory — she seems to avoid academic technique.
And, like Balanchine, he was in love with the academic technique, passionate about the steps, which he wanted done clearly, legibly, without blur or smear.
THE movies have their outsider artists too, filmmakers who work away from the established centers and financial structures, often laboring in blissful ignorance of academic technique.
Ballet itself, with the unnatural extremes of its academic technique (pointwork, 180-degree turnout), is better suited to depicting the otherworldly and the language of the soul.
For a male classical dancer like Polunin, it's a huge ask to excel at everything: at every aspect of academic technique, at acting, at partnering, and at cutting a glamorous figure on stage.
The next year she became a founding member of the avant-garde Judson Dance Theater group, with which she made dances that eliminated bravura, academic technique, acting and musicality, which were the hallmarks of modern dance developed by Martha Graham and others.
Mr. Keigwin's mix of kinetic street energy and academic technique is always pleasing (as is his nonchalant inclusion of homosexuality, at a time when too much dance remains closeted onstage; a section in another work, "Mattress Suite," is cheekily titled "Straight Duet").
Hence, this method really provided a useful and academic technique to identify the sources of bonito product.
