And Mr. Gomes, who can act his way out of even the worst Ballet Theater has to offer, is exceptional in both his characterization and his robust dancing.
After dinner, head downstairs to the gift shop where you can stock up on colorful candles, Christmas tree ornaments and the Africa Café's signature plates and bowls, which feature a delightfully robust dancing woman.
A flirtatious pas de deux from "William Tell," charmingly interpreted by Amy Watson and Thomas Lund, recalled robust folk dancing.
Blending 40's-style swing dancing and robust, athletic partnering with Bauhaus-inspired costumes, the dance is a reminder of the early 80's, when Mr. Curran reveled in punk-rock daydreams.
Blues, salsa, swing, and Argentine tango: the world of partner dancing is robust, inclusive of beginners, and a shockingly easy way to meet new people in almost any large city.
That's why a group of community activists from the village of Theis, Senegal, are spreading their anti-polio message with robust singing and rhythmic dancing – even though they are on crutches as a result of polio.
This year's class of soon-to-be-dancing foals was robust: 22 were born between January and May, all given names starting with L. The males will spend the next three years on the ranch eating oats and Bermuda hay.
This year's program, at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, had only one Balanchine work, though that piece — "Cortège Hongrois," with its robust mix of Hungarian and classical dancing — is a little like two ballets in one.
Yet the dancing, which grew increasingly robust, was marred by Ms. Harper's structural sameness: More often than not, a group, as a framing device, was placed around a single dancer.
The 70-year-old alumnus of musical theater ("The Rothschilds") and television ("Barney Miller") is a robust singing and joking (but not dancing) old-style variety show with one foot on Broadway and other in the Catskills.
There was comedy too: "Ou Pa Nan Chaj" ("You Are Not in Charge") brought out the shortest of the male singers to be pushed around by the rumps of dancing women, though his voice was robust.
