But then, the solidarity of the supporters appeared to wane as the group devolved into a combination dance party and brouhaha.
Afterwards, ask her to teach you your favourite combination (Dance-Talk for "Something Done Over And Over To The Same Song Across The Floor") or dance.
For Eugene Onegin this included several combinations of dance steps, simple in themselves maybe, but tricky to carry off with such carefree aplomb.
The other, sometimes, is to put together unexpected combinations of dance styles and reveal new artists, companies and vocabularies of movement to seasoned dancegoers and neophytes alike.
During the choreographer Merce Cunningham's life, parallels were often drawn between him and Diaghilev; radical combinations of dance, music and design had not been seen in theatrical performance with such frequency since 1929.
"Hi Everybody!," which opens on Thursday for a three-week run at Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, is a poetic, absurdist combination of dance and what Mr. O'Connor calls "the theater of the obvious," meant to entertain the audience while disorienting it and provoking it into a catharsis.
In the eighth, Tua kept coming forward but seldom hit the elusive Lewis, who threw quick combinations and danced away.
The Brooklyn-based troupe Flying Machine brings its combination of dance, mime, music and simple set design to an adaptation of Jim Crace's historical novel by Joshua Carlebach.
This combination of dance, theatre, song and light show is immersive and captivating but you have to be there to make any sense of it at all.
And then, thinking I would learn about earthquakes, I came to Haiti, where, within two weeks, I was studying capoeira, a Brazilian combination of dance and martial arts.
