Mr. Byrd's dazzling dancers were seen to much better advantage in "Gentle Prelude".
Forget the symbols and enjoy the dazzling dancers -- who include Kristi Egtvedt, Takehiro Ueyama, Michael Trusnovec, Annmaria Mazzini, Orion Duckstein and Amy Young.
"A masquerade of dazzling dancers, adorned with beauty and magnificence" is what Alvise Badoero promises his guests at the ball in Act III of "La Gioconda," the Ponchielli opera.
Ashford always has his dazzling dancers hard at work performing his inventive, supremely demanding steps.
In the past year, Deitch Projects has sponsored wildly popular appearances by the Scissor Sisters (three gay men, one straight man, and one straight woman), Fischerspooner (Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner's glam-rock ensemble), and the Dazzle Dancers (whose dazzling includes rampant glitter and what a droll aunt of mine used to call nudal frontity).
"Buddy pictures" paired white actors with African American stars such as Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Gregory Hines, (who was also a dazzling tap dancer), and Richard Pryor.
This haunting little vignette, performed by the dazzling athletic dancer John Selya, is just a blip in the continuous flow that is "Movin' Out," the choreographer Twyla Tharp's shimmering portrait of an American generation set to Mr. Joel's music.
In one particularly dazzling moment dancers glide past like mermaids, as if sailing along in the calmest of waters.
He did many things well enough to provoke envy: he was a dazzling writer, editor, dancer, cook.
