To the same Debussy score, this time played on two onstage pianos, Jan Casier and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet swirl around a shadowed interior in an unfolding cascade of dance.
With its cascade of Spanish dances and difficult technical passages, "Paquita" embodied Romantic ballet's fascination with Spanish dancing and its vogue for Gypsy heroines.
Its two poles this year were symbolized by the contemporary dance-drama of Boris Eifman's "Russian Hamlet" (seen in New York with the Eifman company) and the pageantry of "The Pharaoh's Daughter," acclaimed for its spectacular cascade of classical dances.
Energy seems to be the key: Bintley's E=mc² (set to a specially composed score by Australian composer Matthew Hindson) can't be anything but a celebration of kinetic brilliance and speed; Stewart's The Centre And Its Opposite promises to deliver a cascade of classical dance, made risky and dark by elements of raw physicality.
With her doe eyes, cascade of hair and sinuous dance moves, Ms. Summer became the queen of disco — the music's glamorous public face — as well as an idol with a substantial gay following.
The music critic Jon Pareles's description of the disco singer Donna Summer in May helped catapult her obituary onto the front page: With her doe eyes, cascade of hair and sinuous dance moves, Ms. Summer became the queen of disco — the music's glamorous public face — as well as an idol with a substantial gay following.
"Shake your money maker!" Movement and dance release a cascade of feel-good neuro-transmitters and help you feel at home in your body.
Designed by the architect Ed Rawlings, the new building is at 219 West 19th Street, the site of the old Studio Theater where Dance Theater Workshop introduced a cascade of experimental choreographers for 30 of its 37 years.
If "Bounty Verses" were really the pure-dance ballet it seems, its frenetic cascade of pirouettes, lifts, entrances, exits and taut intricate partnering would dazzle the eye rather than risk viewer burnout.
