"The Perfect Human V1," (with a strikethrough in the title), a duet choreograped and performed by Marianne Kim and Will Bond in response to Jorgen Leth's film "The Perfect Human," offered a more surprising dance-theater portrait.
It's not surprising that dance figures prominently in both secular and sacred aspects of Cuban society, given that many of the country's dance forms evolved from the traditions of West Africans, who were initially brought to the island as slaves.
This is especially surprising in dance music, which is as factional and hair-splitting as a community gets.
Grief, more often than not, is a reaction to the unspeakable; it is not surprising that dance, a nonverbal art, has easily found the resources to express what words cannot.
Though some may find that number surprising — in dance, there has long been the belief that choreographers shouldn't touch Beethoven — Mr. Morris, in a recent interview in the Brooklyn Eagle, goes against the grain, calling that composer's music "perfect for dancing" and, in a typically provocative touch, added, "For me, Arvo Pärt is dance-resistant".
She covers the complexities of young, Black womanhood through a heartfelt blend of humor, drama and a surprising Beyoncé dance tutorial.
Soon they were engaged in a spontaneous game of peek a boo with little heads poking out from around the chair, little hands holding on to support crouching legs, a surprising little dance.
The book, originally published in 1998, largely focuses on the UK scene where genres like drum and bass, garage, hardcore, and jungle snowballed into a long history of electronic production and a surprising permeation of dance music into pop culture.
When I lived here in the 1980's, it was scarcely surprising that everybody danced to the tune played from the Kremlin.
