Jazz dance choreographer Jack Cole has said that Prinz "didn't know a bloody thing about dancing".
Like former Gucci creative director Ford, "beatific death" films were made by men from other artistic fields: Bob Fosse (All that Jazz) a choreographer, Julian Schnabel (Diving Bell) a painter, Ford a fashion designer, and Sam Mendes (American Beauty) a theater director.
"Sherash (Relationship With the Group)," created by Mia Michaels, a jazz-dance choreographer, and set to Robert Slap's "Eternal Om" and music by In Nursery and Klive and Nigel Humberstone, opened with all 12 performers in a dancers' prayer circle.
Florence Lessing, a favorite dancer of the influential jazz-dance choreographer Jack Cole and a featured dancer on the Broadway stage and in nightclubs and films, died on Sept. 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
DUNNING * DAN FROOT A jazz-loving choreographer, fond of blending dance, theater and comedy, offers "Shlammer," a witty story about a Jewish hoodlum that is told with the aid of vaudeville routines, slapstick jokes (some violent) and live klezmer music.
There are lawyers, homemakers, a choreographer, a jazz guitarist, teachers, artists and many retirees.
Ms. Tharp has made dances to pop music of all kinds in her long career as a choreographer, blending jazz, modern and classical vocabularies in exciting new ways.
B8 WEEKEND E1-28; E29-36 ESCAPES F1-12 SPORTS D1-8 OBITUARIES A20-21 Pepsi Bethel A longtime jazz-dance performer and choreographer, he was 83.
But the selection process is notoriously murky, as a 2010 Times piece suggests, and there will be cries of "Élitism!" if more playwrights, composers, choreographers, and jazz musicians appear in the annual roll — notwithstanding the fact that, as A. O. Scott pointed out in the Times a few years ago, the country's economic élites tend to back the most popular fare.
The production was a high-spirited trilogy of ballets, each by a different choreographer, featuring recorded jazz and swing music.
