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The glowing effect, more decorative than dramatic, manages, as does a sudden burst of confetti and streamers, to break through the dance's wallpaper sameness.

High Decor, Not Demure Robert Greskovic 2011

The dance's concluding segment, "Threnody," presents the chorus in a meditational mode as the three protagonists re-enter to take their places—first alongside one another, and finally in a delicate pile-up.

Laughing in the Light and Dark Robert Greskovic 2011

Except, perhaps, for the inclusion of the dance's peat-covered stage, strikingly filmed here as it's being put in place, there seems little about this Sturm und Drang battle of the sexes for barefoot women in thin slips and bare-chested, barefoot men in black slacks that trendy French modernist Maurice Béjart or any number of earnest modern-dance practitioners might not have done.

A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature Robert Greskovic 2011

When the curtain falls, the remaining couples get their new dance assignment for the next week and head up to wardrobe, where the pros confer with the show's designers on their vision for outfits that will best fit that particular dance's music and style.

Dancing With the Stars Backstage Report: Kendra Goes Wild 2011

Kellogg had no such premonitions about Butler's potential — "I don't think anybody could have seen how much better they've gotten in the last six weeks" — and doesn't think the team making the big dance's last dance will have any lasting impact.

CBS' Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg differ on Butler's effect on NCAA tourney 2010

Under pressure to wring profits from dance's biggest moneymaker, ballets are trying longer runs, splashier effects and nuttier productions.

Nutcracker Inc. Ellen Gamerman 2011

Mostly, however, it points to the fact that Mr. Volpi's youthful eagerness can shatter more than it can structure a dance's momentum.

ABT's City Center Season Worked Best With Ballet Robert Greskovic 2011

While it's unclear who might step in to program future seasons—producers could include the Joyce Theater, New York City Ballet and Lincoln Center—people in the dance world say the theater's new focus has the potential to widen audiences and raise dance's profile in New York.

Dancers Flow In After Opera's Exit Jennifer Maloney 2012

• "It was only when 3D was added to the language of film that I could enter dance's realm and language," says Wim Wenders Report, 14 February.

Letters: Glasses raised to 3D 2011

Imaginatively edited shots of her dancing, mostly being lifted and tossed from one male dancer to another, bring about exactly the feeling of freedom and flight that is one of dance's most glorious payoffs.

Dance's starring role in 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011