As part of his defence, the dancer cited several incidents in which troupe members were driven to tears by the artistic director.
Every year for the past decade, an Internet sketch-comedy troupe called LoadingReadyRun has driven a virtual bus from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, in Desert Bus, an unreleased video game from 1995 conceived by the American entertainers Penn Jillette and Teller.
A thumbnail story of the misadventures of a woebegone troupe of unemployed actors in ancient Rome, this miniplay is driven by older forms of comic shtick, the kinds associated with burlesque houses, Milton Berle and the Hope and Crosby "Road" movies.
(Dunning) SYREN MODERN DANCE (Tonight and tomorrow night) Accessibility is what drives this troupe, this time in choreography by the company directors Kate Mehan and Lynn Peterson, set to scores that include music composed or performed by Dvorak, Keith Jarrett, Moondog and Otis Redding.
Another day, another star-studded pickup troupe created by an alumnus of a major ballet company: former dancers, especially those coming from New York City Ballet, appear driven by a do-it-yourself, entrepreneurial spirit.
I consider it a good day if I can get my dog to sit, so the amount of work it must take to train their little troupe of talented dogs to do backflips and drive tiny puppy-sized jeeps around the stage just blows my mind.
When Contrecœur learned of Trent's activity, he led a force of about 500 men (troupes de la marine, militia, and Indians) to drive them off (rumors reaching Trent's men put its size at 1,000).
We drove to catch the same show, performed by another troupe, in a village nearby.
When diplomacy failed and the troupe needed to get out of town fast, Mr. Israel usually drove the bus.
Mr. Galifianakis lip-syncs to the song as he drives a tractor, accompanied by the indie-rocker Will Oldham and a troupe of clog dancers.
