On Friday, the Supreme Court (despite a curiously ill-informed dissent about Kalahari, Aztec, and Han mating rites by Chief Justice Roberts) legalized same-sex marriage nationally — a colossal (and joyous) landmark moment in the liberation of gay men and lesbians.
Take Nancy Savoca, for instance, who grew up in the Bronx and used the sociology of its Italian-American community and its mating rites as the substance of TRUE LOVE (1989, MGM/UA Home Video, $89.95), newly released on videcassette.
As a tape by Led Zeppelin takes over, Romnee Marisa Hayes, Odara Nefertiti Jabali-Nash and Roxanne Lyst become part bystanders, part participants in a mating rite, the best choreography in the work.
Herman Cornejo's dynamism is channeled into a high-leaping solo, followed by Ms. Brown and Mr. Molina in an abstract mating rite nicely filled with angular contortions.
On Saturday afternoon, Ms. Kistler, confident and secure as the bride, joined a focused Albert Evans in "Bugaku," the Japanese mating rite of Balanchine's imagination.
By contrast, there is grace and mystery to Ms. Lampl's fluid solo in the purification ritual that introduces the mating rite.
His "Rite of Spring" turned into an animalistic mating rite.
Suddenly a quiet duet for Ms. Kistler and Mr. Soto becomes a bizarre mating rite.
Its mating rite was led on Saturday with swimming fluency by Stella Abrera and an assertive Carlos Molina.
Croats conducted similar rites in Sosice.
