But many also demonstrated various views of a thoroughly traditional aspect of dancing: matching movement to music.
Wisely, she rarely tries to use the songs as literal templates for dancing, matching gesture to lyric.
And it was, like Corrales, another company member, Yonah Acosta, who took the honours as the treacherous Birbanto, his bold, gleeful dancing matched by the detail and gusto of his acting.
I have not known so euphoric an evening at the ballet for a long time: the audience agog; bursts of applause and gasps of amazement during solos; a delight in the dancing matched by a buoyant response from the stage; cheers, yet more cheers".
A newfound dancing style matches steps with music — finally.
Make sure your energy-filled dancing body matches the expression on your face, or you will look "dead" from the neck up.
In the afternoon program, Mr. Wheeldon avoided references to the dark narrative of the musical "Carousel," choosing instead to spool out dancing to match the score's hum-along sweep.
Outstanding are Itziar Mendizabal, who dramatises the familiar exoticism of the Arabian dance with a compelling hieratic dignity, and Cory Stearns, guesting as the Prince, whose impeccably shaped dancing is matched by impeccably mannered partnering.
In terms of self-control – that is, trying to hold yourself like a horsewoman as opposed to looking like a marshmallow in the saddle – it's a mixture of pilates (in pelvic posture), line dancing (to match the rhythm of the horse), Alexander technique (sitting up straight), cycling (bracing your core, for balance) and Zumba (using your thighs to create some kind of movement).
