The eight supporting players deftly zip through quick, distinct portraits, whether playing busy city pedestrians, square-dancing singles, Wall Street traders, blindered minions of the Williams cult or demented participants at a speed-dating event.
But there were also members of the 1960s collective, like Aileen Passloff, who relished a more full-bodied, less pedestrian kind of dancing.
And their pedestrian gestures don't replace formalist dancing; rather, they lure it into an invigorating exchange.
In Act I the dichotomy between dancing, joyous peasants and pedestrian aristocrats looks actually even more Soviet than I remembered: the nobles are chilly, inhibited and formal, whereas the peasants are expansive, nuanced and remarkably refined.
In Paz Tanjuaquio's "Take Seven," for a cast drawn from the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School in Queens, dancers walking like busy pedestrians soon relaxed into lithe jazz dancing.
In the center, the dancing had a kind of pedestrian pyrotechnics — movements were big, full of life.
Two of the cashiers started dancing with me as passing pedestrians stared through the supermarket's windows.
Two of the cashiers started dancing with me as passing pedestrians stared through the supermarket's windows at the impromptu dance session.
As they wove their way to the theater, dancing and singing through traffic and pedestrians, it did look like a kind of poetry.
Two examples of dance tracking: salsa and belly dancing.Salsa figuresBelly dancing figures.
