Yet there are a few garments not made for the thin physiques of conventional dancers and models.
Eric Taub, the New York correspondent for ballet.co, an international online dance magazine, recently wrote: "Whelan is an acquired taste: extremely thin and muscular, with astonishingly long limbs, Whelan often strikes first-time viewers, especially those accustomed to more conventional dancers, as odd to the point of freakishness".
His dancers move with a much bigger, broader range of motion than conventional classical dancers, and they slither, slide, and arc through space using their torsos, hips, limbs, and heads in an uninhibited way that is foreign to ballet's controlled lines.
Give this dancer conventional series of leaps and turns and, though he can certainly deliver, he becomes trite; when spinning in Alexei Ratmansky's "Namouna," he actually seems to shrink despite all his speed.
The 17-minute long Red Shoes sequence may begin as a conventional scene of dancers on a stage set, but it almost instantly departs from realism.
In the final segment she is at her most conventional and repetitive: dancers run circles around the stage, stomp their feet and pull their elbows into their chests with loud howls.
He says that he's not a "conventional" style of ballroom dancer.
But the Dayton dancers, more conventional in their approach to performing than is Evidence, are also not as settled in Mr. Brown's lusciously distinctive movement language, which spans various West African traditions and American modern dance.
The conventional course for a French dancer would be to apply to the École de Danse, at the Paris Opera Ballet.
[cartoon id="A17439"] The conventional course for a French dancer would be to apply to the École de Danse, at the Paris Opera Ballet.
