Choreographer Rosie Kay remembers when her (non-dancer) husband first saw her company let their hair down on a tour night out: "He was pretty shocked when we all started improvising, using the floor and doing partnerwork and lifts".
These relationships may sound hopelessly somber, but they're enacted with buoyant theatricality as the characters probe the limits of identity, trying to discern the rules for being a child, a dancer, a husband, a wife.
Performing newly choreographed works by the NYCB Ballet master in chief Peter Martins and the former NYCB principal dancer (and husband of Natalie Portman Benjamin Millepieddancersers wore costumes designed by Rodarte's Kate and Laura Mulleavy and Gilles Mendel of J. Mendel, with Swarovski earrings designed by Jamie Wolf.
She was a professional ballroom dancer whose husband had just had a hip repaired.
Atangana was a handsome man by Ewondo standards: strong, well groomed, with a reputation as a good fighter, dancer, and husband.
And she looked so gullible: She reminded Bunny of a Vegas dancer whose husband Bunny had had an affair with, way back in the day.
Another dancer, a husband and a vodka later, could still recall everything about one partner she never so much as kissed: "I remember the shape of his wrist," she said, sketching it in the air.
The excellent conductor (Clotilde Otranto), Ms. Kistler's former partners, other dancers, her husband, her daughter and three of her brothers were among those who joined her onstage.
The dancers in the car that night included three members of the company's corps de ballet: the veteran Jennifer Alexander, 35, a well-liked mentor to younger dancers; her husband of four months, Julio Bragado-Young, 28, who was driving; and Nicole Graniero, a 21-year-old fledgling member.
Founded in 1927, during Prohibition, as a speakeasy by Helen Gallagher, a retired Ziegfeld Follies dancer, and her husband, Jack Solomon, a bookmaker, Gallagher's has made much of its 21-day aging room.
