This May 1961 photo shows ballerina Melissa Hayden, a lyrical, exquisite dancer who performed with the New York City Ballet for more than 20 years.
As this exquisite dancer wends her way through extreme, angled poses, her tall, slender frame made more imposing by very high heels, she takes on an eerie, almost two-dimensional cast.
(John Rockwell) * TCHAIKOVSKY PERM BALLET AND ORCHESTRA (Tonight) These exquisite dancers from the Perm Ballet, which has a direct lineage to the Maryinsky, know how to tell a vivid story in the purest classical dance.
There was nothing cute about his rippling, quicksilver performance of "Les Fées Sont d'Exquises Danseuses" ("Fairies Are Exquisite Dancers").
Chet Walker's "Anger," set to music by Astor Piazzolla, was a seething Broadway tango danced by Ms. Alexopoulos, Robert La Fosse, Desmond Richardson and Rasta Thomas, an exquisite young ballet dancer too seldom seen on New York stages.
Suddenly, I am lifted completely off the ground by a tiny, exquisite Japanese dancer with sadomasochistic tendencies.
The show is most revelatory when it suggests the range of possibilities through images, from imperial likenesses on coins to a funerary painting of a schoolteacher to an exquisite silver sculpture of a dancer who projects something of the resigned weariness of a Degas ballerina.
But Mr. Wenders persevered, working with her dancers to create an exquisite portrait of a seminal artist's work — and in 3-D!
The Joyce presented an exquisite program by the soloists and principal dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet, who showed off their gold standard romanticism and subdued virtuosity that has been the company's international hallmark since the 19th century.
Although the newcomers were pleasant, the most distinguished performance came from Kyra Nichols, a principal dancer with the troupe since 1979, who gave an exquisite interpretation of a sylphlike figure in George Balanchine's "Scotch Symphony," to Mendelssohn.
Venue: Playhouse, Edinburgh The passion of Pina Bausch: Sweet Mambo in pictures Sweet Mambo – an exquisite love letter to Pina Bausch Performing Pina Bausch's 1980 – in her dancers' words.
