Hints and tips:
...Wednesday’s strong cast was led by Lauren Cuthbertson in the consoling “Pie Jesu” and Melissa Hamilton in the “Agnus Dei”, both coached by Darcey Bussell....
...Melissa Hamilton brought a sexual charge to McGregor’s chilly acrobatics as Satan....
...Does Wayne McGregor have a secret twin?...
...In contrast, the closing waltz “Penelope” hovers above ballad tempo and uses muted trumpet and sheens of brass to capture the pensive aesthetic of its composer, the late Wayne Shorter....
...Melissa Swift, a partner at the consultancy Mercer, sees Gen Z as being “caught in a whammy between Covid and ChatGPT”....
...Act Two’s Arabian dance has traditionally been a foursome, with two outriders posing either side of the main couple during the scary two-handed “po” lifts, but Lukas B Brændsrod and Melissa Hamilton were...
...“There is a huge influx of overseas buyers”, says David Barr, sales agent at Wayne Walker Property Consultants....
...The works are topped by a large “Mountain Split” painting (2011-17) by Wayne Thiebaud (market value given as $4.5m)....
...There was a chewy snatch of Wayne McGregor’s gusset-ripping Qualia for Edward Watson and the wiry Melissa Hamilton, and Steven McRae powered through his show-stopping Czárdás Tap Dance....
...The third part of the evening is Wayne McGregor’s Infra, which strikes me as entirely alien. Its cast is splendid, albeit deformed by McGregor’s manner....
...It is stunningly danced by Beatriz Stix-Brunell (the movement warm, eloquent ), by Sarah Lamb and Melissa Hamilton, both ravishing, by Steven McRae and Nehemiah Kish....
...Wayne Tam: Been following Bo XiLai’s rise and fall with great interest. Amazed at the info made public now about individual figures....
...Wayne McGregor has produced another of his dismaying choreographies – new, they would have us believe, but surely this Live Fire Exercise is the same contorted affair that we have seen in the past few years...
...Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo in The Fighter. An outsider, but fanciable. Like Bale, Leo’s possessive mother-from-hell comes on like a tigress, riddled with psycho-spiritual mange....
...There is a moment in Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, opening the Royal Ballet’s latest triple bill, when, after a sequence of torso-wrenching activities, Edward Watson walks naturally, simply, towards his partner...
...In this revival it was handsomely danced, Melissa Hamilton’s intense line notably effective in the great duet with Carlos Acosta, its ensemble clean-cut....
...Like John Wayne in a miniskirt, though, she soon comes back to foil the bad guys and save the day....
...Soles4Souls has distributed more than 2m pairs of shoes since 2004 when Wayne Elsey, a longtime footwear executive, orchestrated a nationwide shoe drive after the Asian tsunami....
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