But its singing, dancing, stage-struck teenagers don't seem all that well informed.
The formal dancing staged for the aristocrats' pleasure is similarly symmetrical and geometrical — even as, filmed from a high angle, it foreshadows the abstract inventions of Busby Berkeley.
In an era of pop stars who can do one or two things moderately well -- singing, rapping, writing songs, playing instruments, dancing, staging a spectacle -- Prince does them all.
He brought belly dancing to Carnegie Hall in 1980, booking the first major performance of the dance group established by Anahid Sofian, a classically trained choreographer who created belly-dancing stage works.
A mop and bucket beside a pole-dancing stage could be any nightclub after hours: the connection between the two types of labour is universal.
They have market share because their products are good, cheap, and plentiful, not because of any particular feature set or an all-singing, all-dancing stage show.
She may have attended the Brit School, but she is as far from the dead-eyed, all-singing, all-dancing stage-school desperado as imaginable.
If the high level of dancing on stage continues, the company should expect a very robust and popular season.
The problem? "Got carried away dancing on stage, didn't I, and fell over a speaker".
When men and women are dancing on stage, there is always human behaviour involved.
