Past winners of the Commonwealth Derby include War Dancer, Kitten's Joy, English Channel, Gio Ponti and Paddy O'Prado.
But in Mr. Guadagnino's version, set that same year in divided Cold War Berlin, the dancers gracing the screen aren't ballerinas; they're neither wispy nor ethereal.
Though three of the men spun to the left, and one to the right, this was recognizably the old war horse, with dancers being as proudly mock-Hispanic as point work, pirouettes and music by Ludwig Minkus will allow.
Blond and brooding as Rooster, Mr. Brown plays an arrogant, insolent young man engaged in an inane Twitter war with another dancer.
Hollie Smith, the ballroom dancing siblings, the sax player, the belly-dancing lady, the anti-war mob, fluorescent dancers, breakdancing Fred all go through.
You'd want a horse to be in A-1 condition to run in a race like this". The Big Capp weights were released by Santa Anita's racing department Thursday, and the top-weighted starters are expected to be Lord at War and Gate Dancer, who were both given 125 pounds.
Marla Hirokawa's "Nisei" salutes Japanese-American veterans of World War II, with guest dancers from the Connecticut Ballet Theater and Pascal Rioult Dance Theater.
To coincide with Remembrance Day, this wordless adaptation of their 2015 stage production subverts typical war narratives, transporting both dancers and audience back some 100 years.
In "Healing Wars," I have three dancers in their 50s, and I don't think of them as older.
In late August, the 144th running of the Travers Stakes is likely to bring the Derby (Orb), Preakness (Oxbow) and Belmont (Palace Malice) winners together in the aptly named Midsummer Derby, a race that has counted equine immortals like Man o' War, Whirlaway and Native Dancer among its winners.
