Much more substantial is Richard Alston's "Rugged Flourish," danced by one man and six women to Aaron Copland's 1930 Piano Variations.
In 10 years, when I have forgotten everything else about Tonga I will still remember licking fish juice from my fingers as orange and gold rays danced off the rugged rock cliffs of Vava'u's islets.
The setting was Ms. Halprin's dance studio in the rugged terrain around the wood-and-glass home she and her husband, the architect Lawrence Halprin, share in Kentfield, a suburban town in nearby Marin County.
Though we had passed over not less than four-and-twenty miles of very rugged ground, and had a Highland dance on the top of Dùn Can, the highest mountain in the island, we returned in the evening not at all fatigued, and piqued ourselves at not being outdone at the nightly ball by our less active friends, who had remained at home.
D'Erasmo's latest novel tells the story of a misanthropic obituary writer for a dying New York newspaper, who views his life through a series of… DANCE Set in 1929, in the rugged mountains of North Carolina, Rash's novel is a tightly knit tale of industrial development, greed, and betrayal.
"Grosse Fugue," set to Beethoven's rugged string quartet of the same name and danced by members of the Lyon Opera Ballet, opened Saturday night's program.
The trio are right out of the American songbook, playing rugged songs that tell stories, and on occasion, can even make you dance.
The rugged landscape, in which mist filters through craggy cliffs and wild flowers seem to dance in the mountain meadows, suggests that religion and geography are profoundly intertwined.
