O'Neal, the last reserve called during the player introduction, came out with a white mask and began dancing with the dance group JabbaWockeeZ before finally opening his mask and joining the rest of the players on the court.
By 2005 Sheppard resigned from academia and began dancing with physically integrated dance companies.
He quickly abandoned his partner and began dancing with a group that Ms. Lipper was with.
At one point the rock star Alla Pugacheva began dancing with Medvedev, the company's chairman.
He began dancing with the Sadler's Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet), but debilitating stage fright brought an abrupt end to his performing career.
In the last four years the company, from the corps upward, has begun dancing with more of the off-balance stretch that should characterize so much of Balanchine's classicism.
The afflicted fell to the ground unconscious, foaming from the mouth and struggling for breath, but after a time of rest they got up and began dancing with still greater impetus and renewed vigor. . . .
Walerski was dressed much as he had been before (shirtless, with gray pants instead of black), and his opening movements evinced a muted anguish; he approached an old woman (Ema Yuasa, her hair painted gray) in a black coat, and began dancing with her, which seemed to bring her joy.
"Merce never admitted publicly that something he created was done for one dancer or another, but we all knew when we saw Merce and Viola doing a duet that he had made it for her," says Sandra Neels, who began dancing with the company in 1963.
And if you ask for her fondest memories she will say the night Misha and Rudy, meaning Baryshnikov and Nureyev, just happen to be in the joint at the same time, and being moved by some impulse or maybe the fizz begin dancing with their chairs, and all to Frank Sinatra singing "Fly Me to the Moon", though whether he is personally there is not clear, and Elaine is keeping it that way.
