Demystifying dance is the aim of several events that will send audiences into dancers' studios and get dancers performing in the stores where their audiences shop and in other unlikely settings, like the gardens of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
"Olafur didn't want us to be sad," Travis Clausen-Knight, a British dancer with Studio Wayne McGregor, said.
Within her latest paintings, men in jumpsuits with stocking feet or a lithe manner recall the dancer's studio.
That the new iconography of women's bodies is about sport and fitness – and, as such, takes its aesthetic cues from the all-in-ones of the racing pool, the gymnast's mat, or the dancer's studio – is progress, surely, from the bikini's none-too-subtle reference to the pairing of bra with knickers.
Like his dancers, each studio had its own defining history.
But Ms. Morrison chuckled when asked if Ms. Brown, who still sometimes works with the dancers in studio sessions, ever seemed to be laboring.
As is the Fred and Adele Astaire awards tradition the next generation of dancers from Studio Bleu of Washington closed the show to a melody of Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound machine hits.
He prefers to collaborate with dancers in the studio, but the Bolshoi dancers, he said, expected to be told what to do upfront.
'Places' is standing in first position looking at the person who said, 'Places.' " Ms. King, who is 53 and a former dancer, opened this studio in 2002 on a sleepy strip of Prospect Avenue in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.
"Well, that was a waste, I thought when I finished," she added, but now she views that period as a stage of unlearning that became useful as she started over as a dancer, in a studio by herself, developing her own style.
