While neither the lustrous Lauren Lovette nor the earnestly precise Anthony Huxley, dancing the second movement together, persuaded me that this was their ballet, their general gifts for Balanchine dancing are never in question.
Patrícia Henriques, tough and precise in her dancing as a woman in black and then in red, stands out in solos of angst amid the general suffering.
Much of the dancing — precise, quick and full of beats — takes to the air in the manner of Bournonville in a chain of ta-da moments that mirror the exuberant nonchalance of Joaquin De Luz.
The remaining eight sections are not son-of-Bolshoi but son-of- Agon," with emotionson-of- Agonto be extrapolated, teason-of- Agonm a cooler, more precise kind of dancing.
Flash mobs don't have to be precise in the dancing, acting or other techniques.
I remembered Mr. Craft from a few years back as an exceptionally talented kid, his looks as clean-cut as his dancing was precise, an ace pupil not quite sure what to do with his long limbs.
It wasn't the music — bright, candy-cane-sweet sounds, like aural Day-Glo — and, while the dancing was wonderfully precise, the choreography had a schematic quality.
