Balanchine created something more than a novelty act in "Porte," with its predatory femme fatale, who is both desired and feared by the limp male figure at her feet.
And, in the process, leaving Porte with a full complement of team-mates and ensuring the Sky man was not disadvantaged in his desperate chase back into contention, a chase in which he was also aided by Orica's one-time Pink Jersey wearer Michael Matthews.
Spain's Contador still leads by six seconds from Australia's Richie Porte (BMC), with Froome third, seven seconds further back.
Along with Arroyo and Richie Porte, an Australian with Saxo, who was previously third overall and fell to seventh, Evans was a major victim of the stage, dropping from fourth to fifth place overall, four minutes behind.
Team Tinkoff's Alberto Contador, who makes his return having not competed in the race for six years, will be battling with Team Sky's Geraint Thomas and the defending champion, Richie Porte, who won with Sky last year, but will race for BMC in 2016.
He pointed to a stone relief in the porte-cochère with six figures.
There is a double porte-cochere with stone pillars at the entrance, to shelter arrivals and departures.
Designed to look like a grand Italian palace, the property has Baroque fountains, sculptured archways and a grand porte-cochere with a cupola.
The Art Deco cast-stone-and-copper building, designed by the father-and-son team of John and Donald Parkinson, had a 241-foot-high tower, a porte-cochere with an elaborately painted ceiling and interiors that offered shoppers a smorgasbord of architectural styles, from Art Moderne to Louis XVI.
A curving porte-cochere with abstract Southwestern designs in cast concrete opened onto a high-ceiling lobby which gave guests a "sense of arrival", a feature often used by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The problem raised its head this spring with Wiggins and it is bound to come some day with Porte, who was instrumental in the Londoner's victory, has paid a key part over the last three weeks alongside Froome and looked stronger than his leader at times, as Froome did alongside Wiggins in 2012.
