or escort, who joined her for the first dance of the next phase of her life.
"This is more like the first dance of the season," said Bill O'Grady, chief markets strategist at Confluence Investment Management.
Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough: For their first dance of the evening, Shawn and Derek took on a graceful Viennese waltz (which naturally involved Sarah McLachlan).
Like at the first dance of the wedding (yes, it's Elisa and Bob nearly a decade ago), we can applaud and cheer from the sidelines.
It used to be that at the beginning of the reception, the newly married couple, their wedding party and parents would be introduced by the emcee before going into the first dance of the evening.
Among the dances of her 1927 program was Revolt, probably the first dance of protest and social comment staged in the United States, which was set to the avant-garde music of Arthur Honegger.
Already, in this first dance of invocation, it is remarkable: the lines and bends of Ms. Shivalingappa's slender figure, the transporting sounds from the singer, flutist and two percussionists.
Here Janie Taylor, the company's other bewitching blonde (Ms. Mearns being the first), danced on the edge of delicate madness.
The day progressed with Anna and Colin's first dance to the Evolution of Dance - 30 dances in four minutes.
He gets the blame for the score in "To the Ones I Love," a 2010 work by Thierry Smits and performed by his Compagnie Thor, which made its New York debut as the first dance offering of the 2011 Next Wave Festival.
