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...de deux between Delia and Ivano, the same old dance they’ve gone through so many times....
...de deux à onze....
...Beatrice Parma, newly promoted to principal, was a fleet and musical Fairy of the Golden Vine on Wednesday and made light work of her flying lesson in the act three Bluebird pas de deux....
...Peck’s Dig the Say is a fancy grand pas de deux. That is to say: a woman and a man dance together; he dances at least one solo; she dances at least one solo; they dance together again....
...Kaneko and her conductor Andrew Litton could maybe risk a little more rubato in the entrée to the grand pas de deux but her solos were unfailingly musical, pirouettes unravelling into razor-sharp attitudes...
...Bourne enjoys the challenge of hands-free partnering — as he did for the Prince-meets-Swan duets in his Swan Lake — but for the final pas de deux Edward briefly imagines himself with real hands: human contact...
...Diamonds, which mines Tchaikovsky’s Third Symphony for the dance encoded within it, is a sublime synthesis of every Petipa vision scene and grand pas de deux....
...Palais de la Découverte, to Albert Thomas....
...After a pas de deux with a life-size tree fairy (Patricia Zhou), he embarks on a bromance with Action Man (Amonik Melaco)....
...The mouthwatering entrée to the grand pas de deux was danced with such thrilling physical rapport that it outshone the party tricks that followed....
...In 2016, Pech relocated from Paris, where he had been an étoile in the corps de ballet since 2005, to assume an associate artistic director role at the Opera di Roma (where he also performs)....
...The inclusion of the dear old Le Corsaire pas de deux, the prawn cocktail of many a gala menu, was presumably intended as a reminder of these juicy early years....
...de deux In a Landscape....
...Acosta was celebrated for galvanising classical warhorses and several of his signature roles, including the impossibly virtuosic Diana and Actaeon pas de deux, will feature on the inaugural tour by BRB2,...
...Hints of aggression manifest as the dancers size each other up around a large central platform, engage in slow dances and, soon enough, launch into angst-ridden solos and pas de deux....
...South Africa’s clumsy pas de deux with Russia is an object lesson in how not to play the non-aligned game....
...Muntagirov’s variation in the grand pas de deux combined elegant manners with sublime classical technique: tight chaîné turns mapping the stage, every jump landed in fastidious fifth position....
...Tzu-Chao Chou was elegant and engaging in the dual role of Nutcracker Prince and Sugar Plum cavalier, Beatrice Parma brought crystalline musicality to Lev Ivanov’s grand pas de deux....
...Marchand’s role is so demanding, with acrobatic pas de deux galore, that his first-night turn was still careful; his young bride Stephanie (Silvia Saint-Martin) seemed as scared of the choreography as she...
...Dosé blanc de noirs....
...Spirits revived when Oleg Ivenko, star of The White Crow, gave a larky reading of the folk-inflected Gayane pas de deux....
...By 1909 classical ballet was fast degenerating, as Christiansen writes, into a novelty act: “vaudeville turns offering a pas de deux sandwiched between performing dogs and jugglers”....
...While most space jaunts are geared towards avoiding calamitous encounters with asteroids, planets or space debris, engineering a deliberately destructive pas-de-deux between two speeding objects in the vast...
...Shelves of leather-bound books, a piano and comfy sofas and rugs in the reception-salon area give the sense that you’re a guest in a wealthy friend’s private home....
...“I’ve also developed a ‘child’ of my Les Deux Café [her LA restaurant], all organic à la Chez Panisse, and there will be music, lots of music,” she says....
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