The starting point is French, with a reverence for good ingredients and classic technique.
Having trained in classic technique, Ms. Carton had avoided using technology in her work.
The repertory also revealed the company had mastered an idiosyncratic and dazzling adaptation of classic technique.
While I am constantly playing with the flavors, I don't stray from the classic technique.
"You know 'chaud-froid,' the classic technique of Escoffier?" he asked.
Is she purposely abandoning all that classic technique she laboriously learned over many years?
"And his classic technique with political opponents -- we saw it in the Lewinsky affair -- is character assassination," Mr. Weldon said.
"I never went to cooking school, so I don't have that classic technique à la Pierre Hermé," he said.
A rise of interest in purely classic technique and balletic abstractions has made such hybridizations less frequent.
"The starting point is French, with a reverence for good ingredients and classic technique," Mr. Grimes wrote.
"He takes the classic technique to extremes," Bouder said, as if there was nothing a choreographer could do that was more exciting.
