Wearing a green windbreaker and bluejeans, and pressing a bandanna into the floor, he tried a head spin and then a bit of the robotic dance popularized by the 1983 Herbie Hancock hit "Rockit".
It also reminds us a bit of the Chicago dance craze, "footworkin'," where teengers fling themselves about to booty house and ghetto tech records.
Then, in 1987, he was cast as Johnny Castle, the bit-of-rough dance teacher who falls for Jennifer Grey's rich-but-supressed summer school student in Dirty Dancing.
THE story of Hugo Chávez's presidency in Venezuela since he first arrived in office in 1999 has been a bit like the dance of the seven veils.
One supporter interrupted her speech by shouting, "You're an amazing woman!" After Mrs. Clinton had finished speaking, a group of core supporters — Washington lawmakers, Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, her husband and daughter, and Mr. McAuliffe — broke into a bit of a dance to the tune of Tina Turner's "Simply the Best".
Some undercooked food, an arm-wrestling contest and a bit of a dance in the sun.
We're doing a bit of a dance at the moment, we haven't really found a way to make it work".
Then, by the end of Act I, they're watching a sort of topiary ballet" — the show's "dream ballet," performed by garden hedges — "and they're rather happy about it, you know, that they're watching a bit of abstract dance, maybe the first they've ever seen".
The McManus, though vividly imagined, had a bit too much of the dance-club glitter of Thomas Adès's "Asyla" in it.
At 46, Ms. Gillis is a bit like the Stevie Nicks of the dance world -- her name evokes cultlike enthusiasm or groans, but not much in between.
