Captured by a BBC crew recording for a documentary on the making of "Infra," the moment offers a window into Mr. McGregor's invigorating impact on the traditionally conservative ballet company.
Through Sept. 3. www.arena.it St . PetersburgXIX Stars of the White Nights The festival traditionally includes opera, ballet and symphonic music.
Simply summed up as Men Make the Best Women, Formula C consists of choosing a group of men from a macho profession coal mining, steelworking, contract killing and parachuting them into a traditionally feminine field: ballet dancing, hairdressing, gardening, cooking.
She expected online ticket sales for the company's new production of "Swan Lake," a familiar and traditionally best-selling ballet, to be vastly greater than for the less familiar regular repertory programs in the 1999 spring season.
(The leading men in this ballet traditionally have no names; known only as The Cadet, The Cavalier, The Nutcracker Prince, they cede the limelight to their partners with grace and good humor).
"La Sylphide," a short two-act ballet, is traditionally presented with a one-act work.
Women like Lotte Berk and Judi Sheppard Missett launched programs based in traditionally feminine modalities of ballet and jazz dance.
"It's like, 'How dare they use those black tutus for 'Swan Lake'?" Mr. Morris blames "sheltered dancers," "crazy balletomanes" and "traditionally conservative boards and ballet masters".
Traditionally considered a touring company, Ballet Theater has also redefined and extended its New York presence and will, as last year, perform at both the Met (spring) and City Center (fall).
Then they "were all ballet trained and traditionally trained, and that made it very difficult to get our ideas across," said Patrick Corbin, one of the company's principal dancers.
