This tactic was effective: dancers crowded the foot of the stage until the last downbeat, just before 2 a.m.
Daniil Simkin, who joined American Ballet Theater as a soloist in 2008, has been promoted to principal dancer effective immediately, Kevin McKenzie, the company's artistic director, announced on Thursday.
In one effective moment, the dancers moved as if struggling against an invisible force exerting tremendous pressure upon them.
Choreographic forces in two other effective pieces also kept bringing dancers together and splitting them apart.
At the same time, everyone acknowledges that the competitions are effective professional tools, clearinghouses where dancers' talents can be displayed, discussed and bartered.
Dancers occasionally struck pictorially effective poses on the sills of the studio windows.
(The dancer Jenna Otter is particularly effective here).
Last fall, Mr. Protas agreed to give up the position of artistic director of the company to Janet Eilber, a Graham lead dancer in the 1970's, effective in July.
The effective "motivators" for such are not flamboyant dancers but the teachings, texts and role models that exemplify the Jewish religious tradition.
In one effective sequence, to the so-called "Minute Waltz," some dancers kept trying to hurry past other dancers who stood in their way like turnstiles or roadblocks.
Also popular was Bolero (1934), an effective teaming of George Raft and Lombard as professional dancers.
