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...Lewitzky’s two-dimensional shapes and lifts often took on a marmoreal quality, only to be punctuated with fluttering arms or a jump; one solo, danced by Janie Taylor, took that tension and turned it into...
...You wouldn’t know from the duet he fashioned for the extraordinary Balanchineans Janie Taylor and Carla Körbes that the wraithlike Taylor is the kind of enigma Cunningham would have recognised or that Körbes...
...Dressed with casual elegance by Janie Taylor, the performers lowered the psychological heat and heightened the clarity of three Graham duets culled from Diversion of Angels and two rarely seen works....
...With the retirement last year of warm, lyrical Jenifer Ringer, mesmerising fantasist Janie Taylor and, most joltingly, Wendy Whelan, who spun from her spiderlike body finely filigreed eloquence, the changing...
...At Janie Taylor and Sébastien Marcovici’s goodbye, after 21 years at New York City Ballet for him and 16 for her, the dance echoed this sentiment....
...Taylor), anyone might have blended in or stood out....
...But Janie Taylor moved like a mechanical doll. The Poet could not enter her shuttered inner world, he could only bring her out....
...By the next section, The Unanswered Question, the woman, now magnetic Janie Taylor, had become a female manifestation of the dark itself, looming over a man (Anthony Huxley) who blindly sought her....
...On opening night, Janie Taylor imagined the sacrificial lamb as both wilful and desperate....
...To an ethereal perpetuum mobile, Janie Taylor hypnotically unwound in Craig Hall’s arms like a twisted chain, then rewound. When the music swooped, the dancers swooped – but how!...
...Janie Taylor drove Sebastien Marcovici backward and in circles as another chorus of women, again in yards of tulle and with hair flying, closed in. By the scherzo, the corps had doubled....
...As the spurned Helena, Janie Taylor wound her arms around Amar Ramasar’s Demetrius like ivy. He kept breaking the chains. Later when he was pursuing her, she pushed and he pulled, wrists grasped....
...On opening night, Kammermusik was wedged between ballets with big themes, of destiny and love: Serenade, in an urgent, capacious performance led by Ashley Bouder, Janie Taylor and Rebecca Krohn; and Brahms-Schoenberg...
...To the concerto’s one heartbreaking melody, Ask la Cour and Janie Taylor faced each other with limbs in Xs like da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, without cover or shame....
...Janie Taylor brings a mesmerising attention – at once feverish and meditative – to her roles, but never the same fever or thought, which is why you want to catch her in every performance....
...Janie Taylor, opposite Jared Angle, made an intriguing combination of impetuosity and doll-like dumbness, as if she were doing whatever popped into her head – except the pops came so slowly we could glimpse...
...And when Sebastien Marcovici promenades an ecstatic Janie Taylor, it is the delicate entwining of their arms and dove-like hands you notice, not the compass movement of her leg....
...Enter Janie Lightfoot, a London-based restorer of textiles and costumes, whom Nicholls found through Kerry Taylor....
...Dramatic sizzle was introduced into Robbins’ Afternoon Of a Faun with two totally contrasting dancers, Janie Taylor, a wraith-like blonde, and the darkly handsome Craig Hall, who meet each other in a rehearsal...
...Purple looked dated and seemed an odd reintroduction for the talented Janie Taylor, who was dancing well after a serious injury....
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