Mr. Wasson chose his subject too late to talk to either Fosse (who died in 1987) or Verdon (who died in 2000), but he elicits revealing material from Ann Reinking, another sensational dancer-lover in Mr. Fosse's life, and even from a friend who describes Verdon's way of dancing and cooking.
Though they are the most sensational dancers in ballet today, they are by no means the most refined, and they are showing signs of caring less rather than more about refinement as time passes.
The Jamaican track star is not only the fastest man on the planet and a sensational Samba dancer — but he also takes gold medal-worthy selfies.
The first number is danced to Blackstar and looks sensational, with the dancers in form-fitting silvery unitards.
A neoclassical outburst that looks as amazing as it did here in 1998, it was a toast to classically trained dancers at their most sensational.
And finally, when all the rhythms end and the music concludes in a huge, sustained and grindingly forceful chord, Balanchine has his dancers arrive in a sensational tableau, all facing us.
But Calder particularly recommended himself with his sensational full-body portraits of jazz-era dancer Josephine Baker and bust portraits of many in his Parisian artistic circle, such as Miró, composer Edgard Varèse, and socialite Kiki de Montparnasse.
There is a sensational scene in which ultraviolet light transforms the dancers into blackface voguers, and Ms. Freitas is brilliance incarnate in her bizarre lolloping, grimacing opening solo and later her uncanny impersonation of Prince.
In 2004, another hotel-room jamboree with lap dancers was one of the more sensational indiscretions that put paid to his two-year marriage to the society beauty Caroline Hickman.
A sense of ritual infused "Orbit," the hoop-spinning solo that Nicole Loizides rendered with sensational virtuosity and purity: a fine successor to Erin Elliott, the original dancer and co-choreographer (with Mr. Pendleton).
