Over the course of two and a half hours, holographic images of dancers writhe around the stage, while archive footage transports us from pastoral peacetime to the industrial slaughter of trench warfare.
Since these practices also tend to shorten the shoes' life (which is, at best, 20 hours of moderate use), many dancers simply tolerate the pain and dance in new shoes until they are naturally supple.
For half a century, Sábado Gigante has been a raucous romp, with hours and hours of musical guests and dancers.
A few hours after the strike vote, a group of dancers asked Balanchine, the company's artistic director, if he would continue the company class anyway.
A typical Wiseman film takes up to a year to edit, so the director was poring over 150 hours of footage of the Crazy Horse dancers for months.
Last spring, Ms. Brown crossed the country holding four-hour auditions in several cities in search of dancers with the kind of range and versatility that she wanted.
In the course of an hour, the dancers strip out of Baroque costumes and into disco wear and then into bras and briefs, and nestle on Astroturf.
The performance, featuring a mix of dancers and musicians, announced an hour of black joy.
Over the course of an hour, eight fine dancers of the Brian Brooks Moving Company thread between the lines.
