Later the same year, the arrest of Alan Gross – who was freed this week as part of the choreographed US-Cuba thaw – became a larger roadblock to rapprochement.
"It's just so interesting to see how he choreographs for us, which is so differently from what he does for his own dancers," he said.
In addition to the reconstructed work by Mr. Cunningham, students will dance the world premiere of "For All of Us," choreographed by Benoit-Swan Pouffer of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet of Manhattan, and "The Butterfly Dream," choreographed by Xiao-xiong Zhang of Taipei, Taiwan.
Such tools can interact with us in ways never before possible, such as working with us in a choreographed dance for a talent competition or helping us script a novel or new sci-fi movie.
"It was a complicated scene, a very choreographed scene, with all of us crazy circus freaks".
"He created a playground and choreographed it, but he let us live in it and have a voice".
Ed Easton Jr. of WNOW-FM gave the video a rating of seven out of ten, writing that, "there is plenty of choreographed dancing as Breezy shows us he still got it, getting everyone in the neighborhood to dance with him.
"You'd laugh if you'd heard us choreographing that scene: 'What if I go do this?' 'Yeah, yeah, can you grab me by the ankles and throw me on top of you?' 'Yeah, yeah!' [Laughs] We'd watch the playback and we're like, gosh, is this too much?
Cage wrote "Credo in Us" for a dance choreographed by Merce Cunningham and Jean Erdman, but the work also has broader political undercurrents.
As choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, they keep coming at us in full-speed-ahead phalanxes, fortified by every step in a Broadway-by-the-numbers dance book.
Ms. Turocy led us in a languid Sarabande choreographed by Sallé, in which we were to strive for a gliding motion and sense of skimming the floor that was said to be typical of Sallé's dancing.
