"Certainly, the accent is upon virtuosity, occasionally at the expense of what we have come to regard as good balletic line," wrote Walter Terry of The New York Herald Tribune, reviewing the couple's American stage debut on Feb. 10, 1954, in New York, "and the flourishes which introduce, pepper and conclude a particular daring passage have a circusy air about them.
His line "Accumulate as many sins as you can" seems to have been his motto, and, compared with some of his more lascivious lines, even the most daring passages of pre-Islamic poetry sound chaste.
I'm barely into Gail Sheehy's Daring My Passages and am similarly overwhelmed by all the things that were going on.
Again, one is struck by the daring of ending a passage of rising exhortation with the calm, almost finicky precision of "For I am persuaded that".
** Again, one is struck by the daring of ending a passage of rising exhortation with the calm, almost finicky precision of "For I am persuaded that".
Instead of focusing their wrath on the few obstructionists in the Senate who blackmailed the majority into dropping a much needed public option in order to avoid a filibuster, they made Dean the villain for daring to suggest that passage of this deeply compromised legislation might make the nation's health care system worse.
In addition to what DT has been doing now for over 20 years, there are bands as diverse as The Mars Volta, Muse, Mastodon, Opeth, Radiohead, Coheed & Cambria and Tool that are pushing the envelope with long songs, instrumental passages and daring, experimental arrangements and production that critics are finally actually applauding rather than criticizing.
As the movement — much of it involving games with weight-bearing and balance — accumulated, moments popped out: Cecily Campbell's energetic, impish passages; Strafaccia's daring dive onto Jamie Scott, leading into a duet punctuated by a swirl to the ground and a slap on the floor.
As the movement much of it involving games with weight-bearing and balance accumulated, moments popped out: Cecily Campbell's energetic, impish passages; Strafaccia's daring dive onto Jamie Scott, leading into a duet punctuated by a swirl to the ground and a slap on the floor.
