| 单词 | pas de deux |
| 例句 | Hardly a pas de deux, there was a seesaw of results: wins for Bobby...draws...wins for Reshevsky. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And one day, in the middle of a ghostly pas de deux—a green silk leading as Desdemona backpedaled—she heard a voice. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Act I peasant pas de deux is cut from this performance. Critic?s Notebook: A Flying Giselle, Coming Right at You 2011-07-13T23:00:27Z Their more substantial and impressive pas de deux later was the balcony scene from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet,” of which Dudamel also conducted three brief orchestral selections. Gustavo Dudamel gives Misty Copeland the royal treatment in the Hollywood Bowl's classical opener 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The heart of the work is the pas de deux by the ballerina and the modern dance man, in which his faunlike primitivism is tamed by, but also incorporated into, her fluid expansiveness. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z Mr. Peck’s “Chutes and Ladders” is an extended pas de deux, 10 minutes long, during which the string quartet is played on a platform onstage. Dance Review: At Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella’s Tenets Live On 2014-01-13T22:49:55Z She knew all kinds of things about classical music after years of pas de deux that took her all over the Tristate area. A brother’s mourning clothes: I wanted a uniform of grief 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z In the adagio pas de deux that followed, her body arched and her neck craned back for maximum closeness with Marcelo Gomes’s Aminta: an eloquent demonstration of Ashton’s feeling for the sensuousness of amorous contact. Dance Review: Ashton’s ‘Sylvia’ Is Revived at American Ballet Theater 2013-06-25T21:14:40Z And the “Agon” pas de deux for Ms. Adams and Arthur Mitchell is spine-tingling; there may be wobbles, but the air between them crackles. Sets Featuring Fonteyn, the Cunningham Company and Others 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The central pas de deux, with its low, sustained lifts, is a particular marvel, as are the bounding, playful dances for the trio who open the work, and the geometric kaleidoscopic motion of the ensemble. Ratmansky’s ‘Concerto’ Shines in Mariinsky Triple Bill in London 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Everest of a pas de deux, Victor Gsovsky’s “Grand Pas Classique,” that the Finnish former company dancers around me were caught by surprise. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Yet the pas de deux, though marvelously changing the tone, is less a highlight than the all-male dances, which demonstrate human diversity, extensive debate and liberal civilization. Dance This Fall: Indian Mythology and Ballets by Women 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The usual choreographic response to concertos, following the Balanchine model, uses the full dance company in the fast outer movements but focuses the slow movement on a sustained supported adagio or pas de deux. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z But it was still enthralling to watch the choreography unfold, including a pose in her pas de deux with Cerdeiro in which her leg was extended in arabesque as he knelt before her. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Palmer created those pas de deux, and he proved the stronger choreographer when it came to developing characters. A marriage of opera and ballet in ‘Carmen in Havana’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z And a male-female pas de deux is a meeting of equals: both partners dance, sometimes doing different material at the same time. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z I’m excited to see the dancers’ faces after running a pas de deux, or how excited the audience will be to see some of the classics they’ve been missing. A night at the ballet, in time for ‘Nutcracker’ season 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z In the pas de deux, Kowroski, whose farewell performance is on Oct. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z With its folk motifs, two spellbinding pas de deux and galvanizing group sections, “Violin Concerto” remains playful and soulful in startling ways. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z His mother comes on to dance too; she and her son balance on one leg on the rooftop’s ledge, then he gives her a ginger twirl in a sweet, familial pas de deux. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Aurora and the Prince perform their Wedding pas de deux in what looks like Baroque underwear. Review: Ratmansky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Has Premiere in California 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z After Romeo and Juliet meet, the camera follows them outside to show their swooping, ecstatic pas de deux in large-scale, close-up detail on the screen. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z When they first see one another, they just smile, foolishly and for a long time; in the balcony pas de deux, they show, in physical terms, the equivalent of their stunned happiness. Daria Klimentova shines at English National Ballet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The show incorporates a potent “Swan Lake” fantasy too: a pas de deux for Billy and a vision of his future self. At ?Billy Elliot? Camp, Intensive Training 2010-06-18T21:21:00Z Mr. Hamilton sounds truer to himself on “Never Let Go,” a pas de deux of domestic reassurance, featuring Keri Hilson; and “Best of Me,” his rundown of courtly attentions. New Music: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa?s Collaborative Album ? Review 2011-12-12T23:45:22Z Mr. Dale first discovered his ability to win laughs when he was forced as a kid to perform a ballet pas de deux without his partner in a competition. ‘Just Jim Dale’ Says It All and Does It All 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z "The balcony pas de deux has this exquisite sequence of steps like butter, so organic with a melodic counterpoint between the two lovers, and yet it's incredibly difficult." Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Tiler Peck and Mr. De Luz danced the bravura coda of the “Stars and Stripes” pas de deux. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z Yet even with the right things in place — shiny metallic belts, plain pony-tail hairdos and some elegant wrapped tops — this pas de deux between a designer and her desire for simplicity never took off. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z Although the camera often seems a participant in a ménage à trois, at least once a movie it executes a mind-boggling pas de deux with a single actor. ?Hysterical Excess,? Andrzej Zulawski Films at BAMcin?matek 2012-03-04T04:13:02Z A pas de deux becomes an aerial gantry. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Why don’t we see George Balanchine’s exquisite pas de deux “Sonatine” more often at New York City Ballet? Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z A long pas de deux begins with Mr. Reeder kneeling and watching Ms. Tuttle as she, across the stage, keeps slowly extending a leg: the scene evokes Act II of “Giselle.” Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz?s ?Untitled (the Blue Ballet)? at the Kitchen 2012-03-10T00:50:47Z But, in one of the ballet studios at Lincoln Center, a pas de deux is being made, step after agonizing step. Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Or maybe he was demonstrating a particularly complicated pas de deux for the as-yet-unnamed new ballet he is choreographing for the American Ballet Theater that will have its premiere next month. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z Mr. la Cour, who is stiffer as a dancer, is a superb partner, and their “Aria II” pas de deux was a gorgeous display of athleticism transmuted into suddenly poetic imagery. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z Their pas de deux — “Alone Together” happens in two parts, in another avoidable redundancy — do little to cement their physical bond. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z And for pure comedy nothing beats their cantankerous pas de deux over the answering of a telephone, which they approach as if it were an exotic beast with a volatile temper. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z The LP becomes human-sized and has a love pas de deux with her. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Rats in Fishnet Tights 2010-12-11T12:30:00Z And yet she diminishes both the pas de deux in “Agon” and the “Concerto” Opus 24 of “Episodes.” Dance Review: Youth, Balanchine and Fans Are Served 2011-05-06T23:29:12Z And there is a 10-minute ballet for the spirited and vulnerable Louise, who, we learn, is snubbed by her peers and left heartbroken after a pas de deux with the Fairground Boy. A Ballet Crowd, Bustin’ Out All Over ‘Carousel’ 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z In the wedding pas de deux, we talk about streamlining it and not adding too much extra fluff that we don’t need. In ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ the Hard Work of Being Princess (or Prince) 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z She was in the original cast and much praised for her part in the hypnotic, meditative pas de deux in the second movement. Review: A Trip From Light to Dark With the National Ballet of Canada 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Guillem, supported in a graceful fluid pas de deux, keeps twisting and adjusting her position, as if challenging Le Riche's hold. Sylvie Guillem - review 2011-07-06T23:44:38Z But the core of “Diamonds” is its pas de deux, which was performed, mostly, with a dreamlike fluidity by Maria Kowroski and Charles Askegard. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z The pas de deux for Alice and the Knave, introduced in the prologue and threaded through the story, are crucial to the production’s failures even as they succeed on their own terms. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Tharp here turns the first two movements of the “Farewell” Symphony into a long, demanding, complex pas de deux for Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae. Review: A Triple Bill at the Royal Ballet Comes Up Two-Thirds Short 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Or perhaps the wistful lyrical pas de deux when Joy dances to one of Riley’s favorite memories of skating on a frozen Minnesota lake? Review: 'Inside Out' Is the Craziest Movie Pixar Has Ever Come Up With 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And the melting softness in her body when she bowed over her leg to Sarabia’s prince at the start of their wedding scene pas de deux. Review | The Washington Ballet awakens with a lavish, triumphant ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The solos or pas de deux often have counterpoints by small groups from the ensemble, who subtly echo or accentuate the movements of the principals, often forming exquisite frieze-like stage pictures. Dance Review: Choreographer Works Magic With Latest Ballet 2013-12-20T13:13:20Z And so we get a grand pas de deux, with some of Ms. Tharp’s quickest and fanciest choreography, and Irene and the children get a chance to escape. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z For once that gala staple, the black swan pas de deux, was the showstopper it’s meant to be. Dance Review: A Crowd Favorite Takes His Leave 2011-07-01T22:41:17Z Two pas de deux began with the man running around an empty stage in a quest; three dramatically romantic male-female pas de deux each featured a long mouth-to-mouth kiss. At Damian Woetzel’s Vail International Dance Festival 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z The pas de deux builds from resistance to abandon. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Dream’ and ‘Firebird’ 2012-06-22T22:43:10Z The Swan Queen enters the stage to the familiar harp ripples that signal the beginning of the tender Act II pas de deux of “Swan Lake.” Dada Masilo Turns Tchaikovsky on His Head in ‘Swan Lake’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Streaming on Ballet Theater’s YouTube channel, this free half-hour celebration is a pas de deux between performers and the picture book “B Is for Ballet: A Dance Alphabet.” 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Ratmansky, with “Pictures at an Exhibition,” and Wheeldon, with the pas de deux “This Bitter Earth,” got the proportions just right. New York City Ballet’s life-affirming new works boost the spirit 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z But there’s also plenty of ballet-ballet, in the form of Clark Tippet’s “Bruch Violin Concerto,” with its multiple impassioned pas de deux, and Christopher Wheeldon’s little-seen “For 4,” set to Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z Is another ballet set to songs sung by Bennett — “Let Me Sing Forevermore,” Lang’s 2019 pas de deux, has been a feature of the company’s repertory during the pandemic — what the world needs now? Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The story develops into an emotionally and morally complex pas de deux, and holds you spellbound until the end. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z Well, it’s now a male pas de deux. In Its Next Life a Song Cycle Is a Musical 2012-02-03T15:00:00Z The plan brings transparency, surprise and civic grandeur to a narrow lane; and by revealing Wren’s building, it invents a pas de deux, the Rothschild tower nodding to the tower of St. Stephen. Critic’s Notebook: A Rothschild Building in London 2013-01-09T21:32:09Z When, the ensemble leaves, their pas de deux centers them in a more intimate corner of Robbins’s idyllic world. Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z By the time Wendy and I came in, he had made the pas de deux with Lourdes and Nik, and perhaps that gave him the confidence that there was something there. ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z The opening phrases of its pas de deux are variations of an everyday barre exercise that evolve into a grave and luminous parsing of classical form. The Royal Ballet – review 2012-11-18T16:30:01Z In “Infra” that world is recognizably our own as the dancers coalesce into pas de deux and groups, then dissolve into solitude. Dance: Joffrey Ballet Takes on Wayne McGregor?s ?Infra? 2012-02-12T15:31:06Z Yet the pas de deux, set to Mozart’s Rondo in A minor for solo piano, has a gleaming simplicity and an unsentimental feeling of sisterhood. Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z This year’s program was a bit more gala-style than usual, mainly composed of several short excerpts and pas de deux. Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Includes ‘Harlequinade’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z You don’t mind at first because nobody choreographs a pas de deux of wit and despair quite as elegantly as O’Neill. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking After some amusingly depicted obstacles, true love naturally prevails, and the love-struck pair is happy ever after by the final pas de deux. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z The play, which had its Broadway premiere in 1996 with Michael Gambon and Lia Williams, is a pas de deux between characters who share a complicated romantic history yet who are worlds apart ideologically. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Amélie’s solos feel static, and her erotic pas de deux with Pozzi is firmly in the genre of ballet sex — conspicuously artful sequences of splayed legs, arched backs and suggestive positions. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Wheeldon's Tryst also pushes its dancers into fraught terrain, especially its central pas de deux. Royal Ballet triple bill 2010-05-25T21:40:00Z You could call it “Women in Love”; one aspect, astoundingly expressed in one pas de deux after another, is that love is not always enough. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z This is at its most poetic in the pas de deux, shown in a Royal Ballet rehearsal here: ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z This is choreography that changes your breathing, but we’re still not halfway through the pas de deux. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Returns to the American Ballet Theater Stable 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z And the aerial pas de deux of a badly wounded Iraq war vet and a radiant Middle Eastern angel. 'American Idiot': Youth in crisis, set to Green Day's boisterous beat 2012-06-06T21:30:10Z They have a whole series of pas de deux — at least one in each of the four movements — and yet these each prove only so much blah. Dance Review: Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean?s Kingdom? - Review 2011-09-23T23:00:16Z The central pas de deux here is a blend of “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty” — all tragic magnificence and ceremonial alliance. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z She enters just for a pas de deux and then returns, for an instant, at the work’s end, at the side of the stage, whereupon all seven men gesture to her. Alexei Ratmansky: A Choreographer Who Leaps Ever Higher 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Balanchine’s version contains one of his supreme pas de deux, in the second-act divertissement, seeming to sum up both the Platonic ideal of love and an image of Renaissance harmony that transcends the plot. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z At various points duos emerge to perform balletic pas de deux, full of ice-skater swirls and arched overhead lifts, legs scissoring and splitting open in the air. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The other two works — both company premieres, most definitely Mr. Corella’s choices — were atmospheric pas de deux in the middle of the program: Mr. Wheeldon’s “Liturgy” and Robbins’s “Other Dances.” Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z There’s the expectation of the pas de deux: Knowing its history and being able to pay homage to that legacy in the best light possible, but also bringing myself to the role. School of American Ballet’s Gutsy Kids: ‘They Just Have to Dance’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z It takes them years to truly come together, a moment marked by a final sweeping pas de deux full of swooning turns and breathless lifts that tilt and spiral. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The evening starts off promisingly, with the act two pas de deux from Giselle. National Ballet of Cuba 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z It’s astonishing how these ingredients are built into a framework for the ballet’s many pas de deux — above all the phenomenal duets, acrobatically and intensely sexual, that conclude each of the three acts. After Flood, Houston Ballet Returns With a Romantic Masterpiece 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z But there’s this pas de deux that’s quiet, just solo piano, and I took that as a hint and used only two follow spots. A Master of Dance Lighting Steps Out of the Shadows 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z What he got was 220 pounds of Austrian bodybuilder, who could no more disappear into a crowd than he could perform a pas de deux. Jurassic Park 3D: revisiting the film that put machismo on the extinction list 2013-04-01T15:07:59Z There are, however, many swooning pas de deux. Dance Review: ‘Onegin’ From American Ballet Theater 2013-05-15T20:02:29Z It was the Act II pas de deux from “Giselle,” the ballet in which she made her first big impression here, with American Ballet Theater in 2009. Review: In ‘Force of Nature,’ Natalia Osipova Is Absorbed in Memories 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z The Prince doesn’t have a lot to do in “Beauty,” but Gordon brightened the Wedding pas de deux with his windswept leaps and tender ardor. The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z You’d think that if a choreographer tackled “Anna,” then the reason would be the pas de deux. Dance Review: Illicit Love and All Its Consequences 2011-07-12T22:55:57Z Several of those “Sugar Plum” pas de deux I saw around the country also featured sequences from Balanchine’s 1954 version, which is danced by New York City Ballet and at least four other American companies. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z It was meant to be a gala pas de deux, but the reaction was so enthusiastic that Ashton, to their horror, asked the audience members if they wanted to see it again. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In “The Man I Love” pas de deux, she reveals sudden darknesses — those sharp, bleak quarter-twists of the body — that made it psychologically startling. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z The Andante features a stream of five perfect duets; as you watch each ballerina dance a single pas de deux, you scarcely notice that two of the men do double duty. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Only in the final pas de deux, for Ms. Lamb and Mr. Underwood, do we get something of the unearthly beauty that he is able to evoke. Dance Review: ‘Raven Girl,’ a Wayne McGregor Ballet Premiere in London 2013-05-27T20:45:55Z Only one bedroom pas de deux was included. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z If the final dance were a pas de deux, the performers would be Hoffman, 45, a 2006 winner for Best Actor in Capote, and Jones, 66, who took Supporting in 1994 for The Fugitive. 2013 Oscar Nominations: Who Will Win? 2013-01-10T16:37:58Z As in most ballets, the arc of the love story is developed through a series of pas de deux, an art for which Wheeldon is well known. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Enigmatic in her pas de deux with Jonathan Stafford but beaming in the finale, Ms. Reichlen contrasted the airy movement of her extraordinary limbs with the unfussy regal way she glides through most choreography. Dance Review: City Ballet Offers ‘The Cage’ and ‘Rubies’ at Koch Theater 2012-10-04T21:06:04Z Each of the three parts of “Jewels” contains a pas de deux with images of tension between a man and woman. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z When Terpsichore placed her finger onto Apollo’s at the start of the pas de deux, the emphasis was overdone: What should matter more is the line that follows as she turns away. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In their version of Go For Barocco, the tics and quirks of Balanchine's neoclassicism are beautifully captured, and completing the programme are a range of "mystery pas de deux". This week's new dance 2011-03-05T00:07:47Z During a pas de deux, a few dancers sprawl on the floor in a downstage corner to watch. Alexei Ratmansky's ballet 'Concerto DSCH' is a joy 2011-03-21T23:33:15Z The most technical choreography is saved for a series of pivotal pas de deux and big, celebratory group dances. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z The second act contains a suite of dances, including an exquisite pas de deux for two unidentified characters, set to the limpid andante from Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 9. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps most surprising for contemporary audiences, the famous lakeside pas de deux for the heroine, Odette, and her suitor, Prince Siegfried, includes a third participant, Siegfried’s best friend Benno. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z These include a tap dance with bowling pins by the six-member female corps, and a Nativity pas de deux performed by Michael Dauer and Joshua Dean, the two standouts of the cast. ‘Chris March’s The Butt-Cracker Suite!’ at Here 2012-12-01T03:33:58Z Among the story ballets, this "Cinderella" lacks the showstopping fire we see in the Black Swan solo of "Swan Lake," the Rose Adagio of "Sleeping Beauty," the last-act pas de deux of "Midsummer Night's Dream." PNB's 'Cinderella' is all about eye candy 2011-02-07T20:39:04Z I’m sorry to have missed this: Knowledgeable friends have reported how Ms. Mearns cast an unusual number of smiles at him during the “Diamonds” pas de deux. Jonathan Stafford Bids Farewell to City Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Maria Kowroski — superbly partnered by Jared Angle — was dancing the role with the first and final pas de deux. Dance Review: At City Ballet, a New Work Looks to Ellington for ?That Swing? 2011-01-30T23:49:35Z “The Cage” is bookended by George Balanchine’s jubilant Stravinsky ballet “Rubies” and Robbins’s “Andantino,” a 1981 pas de deux set to Tchaikovsky. Dance Review: City Ballet Offers ‘The Cage’ and ‘Rubies’ at Koch Theater 2012-10-04T21:06:04Z In the middle of the grand pas de deux in Act III of the new “Beauty,” Aurora, facing the Prince, touches her heart and then points to her ring finger. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z That short pas de deux, set to Tchaikovsky, pairs Tiler Peck and Gonzalo Garcia in a flavorless, romantic ballet that serves only to show her rigor and his raggedness. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z As the two work together, Lionel refuses to kowtow to him, and their interaction is a pas de deux of advance and retreat that amounts to a two-person class struggle. The Oscars: The Prince and the Uncommon Commoner 2010-12-31T18:57:13Z There are spectacular throws and catches in the pas de deux, and yet acrobatics aren’t the point here; what you think about is the spontaneity of love’s first excitement. Dance Review: A ?Nutcracker? Sprouts Alter Egos 2010-12-24T22:30:03Z No other dancer so plainly shows that the famous grand pas de deux is a wedding-day duet. Dance Review: Ballet?s Home Away From Home for International Stars in New York 2011-05-24T22:13:23Z We want rapturous pas de deux and virtuosic solos, visions of a nether world of female spirits in diaphanous white, evil villains and noble heroes, exotic color and big scenery. Dance Review: The Warrior, the Maiden, the Whole Schmear 2011-04-24T21:30:43Z But emotion pervades only the work in the final pas de deux, set to a dark folk song and oddly disconnected from the rest of the piece. Dance Review: New York City Ballet With a Dose of the Underworld 2014-05-02T23:04:16Z The same clarity occurs in the serene Act II pas de deux from Balanchine’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z The original man in the pas de deux, which was shocking not just because the casting was mixed race, was Arthur Mitchell, who founded Dance Theater of Harlem 12 years later. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Return Has Warm Reception 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z This programme also takes in Twyla Tharp's Known By Heart pas de deux plus Balanchine's Duo Concertant, set to music by Stravinsky. This week's new dance 2011-01-29T00:06:32Z In the end, of course, Clara and the prince dance a triumphant pas de deux just before their fantasy world dissolves into the light of day. Mice make mischief at McCaw Hall 2010-11-29T22:16:00Z The narrative sweep was genuinely captivating in moments, such as the magical lead-up to the Act 1 battle and the majestic grandeur of the climactic pas de deux. Canadian pianist continues daring performances 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z When Mr. Bergasse choreographed the Broadway musical “On the Town,” he created the “Lonely Town” pas de deux on her. She Dances. He Directs. How They Created a Balletic Battle of the Sexes. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The pas de deux, or romantic male-female duet, is considered by many to be the art form’s linchpin, but it can seem sentimental, or worse, sexist. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z We did not only ballet, but acrobatics, martial arts; we also did pas de deux. Heading West: A Ballet Dancer From China Looks Back 2010-08-20T22:01:00Z Throughout this longish pas de deux, the dancers lose and regain their footing. Review: Ballet NY Presents a Premiere, Medhi Barati’s ‘What Ever’ 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The cast of three dancers — Black, queer, and trans, at center-stage, perform a male pas de deux and then a pas de trois. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z He imagined a young ballerina entering the studio and finding the sleeping boy, resulting in a pas de deux both erotic and innocent. PNB to mirror Robbins' 'Afternoon of a Faun' 2011-10-27T20:39:45Z And salt, doing a whimsical pas de deux with wildflower honey, is what the Honey Beer is all about. The Tipsy Diaries: 3 Cocktails That Share an Exquisite Secret 2011-01-06T22:30:13Z Her partner, Robert Fairchild, was sharp and soft in all the right places, and in the second pas de deux, an angular display of partings and meetings, they shared a tenuous melancholy. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z Also wedged in the middle was the pas de deux from “After the Rain,” by Christopher Wheeldon. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z After 16 years, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet will bid farewell, bowing out with a final selection of Balanchine works, including the pas de deux “Meditation” and the gypsy-inspired “Tzigane,” both created for Farrell. Ballet and Bernstein: Kennedy Center reveals more of 2017-18 season 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z By contrast, the “Don Quixote” pas de deux was presented for full-out bravura. National Ballet of Cuba: National Ballet of Cuba, in London in ?La Magia? 2010-04-07T23:26:00Z Thursday night, the audience at Meany Hall was treated to a bravura performance of the classic “Don Quixote” pas de deux, complete with soaring leaps, dramatic partnering and spot-on spins. The Trocks: They could’ve danced all night | Dance review 2013-05-17T20:47:19Z In each case, the choreography eventually won; you could feel it happen with the high-kicking entry of four Melancholic female soloists in “Temperaments” and with Apollo’s pas de deux with Terpsichore. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z So if you see the heroine Clara dancing a romantic pas de deux with the Nutcracker prince, you’re watching an alternative version; I call this anti-“Nutcracker” behavior. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Among its features, I single out the way Balanchine’s pas de deux give extensive sequences of unaccompanied dance to the ballerina, so that her returns to her partner become matters of choice and drama. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z There’s a big pas de deux in it that could have come out of any middle-period Stravinsky ballet. Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Balanchine greatly enjoyed choreographing the second movement pas de deux, Villella said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z A new pas de deux choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, who took over as the Paris Opera Ballet’s dance director last fall, was a late addition to this evening of short works. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z A rarity was “Dvorak pas de deux,” choreographed, in an amalgam of classical and Czech folk styles, for television in 1966 by the Danish ballet master Harald Lander. Review: Royal Danes Deliver Fresh Shots of Bournonville 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z And Boston Ballet is staging a new spectacle: a pas de deux inspired by traditional Chinese ribbon dancing. As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z And it was not just about how to execute the dazzling leaps and turns that the ballet’s grand pas de deux is famous for. This Man Is Trying to Reinvent the Pennsylvania Ballet 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s a crude pas de deux, somewhat like watching Gene Kelly get frisky with a beanbag, and hypnotic because of its exotic choreography. Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z For the Joyce season, however, Ms. Farrell has largely chosen personal works: the “Diamonds” pas de deux from “Jewels,” “Agon” and “Meditation,” all signature roles from her career. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z In a rehearsal, he micromanages every last nuance of expression — the curve of the fingers, the gestures, musical timing — as he coaches dancers through a pas de deux. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty The second half, a wedding celebration, is devoted to classical ballet and crowned by a luminous pas de deux. Balanchine’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Despite a few awkward moments in the final pas de deux, Mr. Mikayelyan was generally a competent partner and an appropriately dashing Lucien, while Mr. Pierre made a nicely cartoonish villain. ‘Paquita’ at the National Theater in Munich 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z He can give wings to an important individual dancer; his pas de deux can be occasions for real drama; his uses of stage geometries and light can be potent. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z “I used to grab Misty Copeland in class and start improvising with her, and we would work in the studio and put little pas de deux together,” he said. Teaming Up to Pair Art and Ballet in American Ballet Theater’s ‘AfterEffect’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Later, in the main pas de deux, the lead male holds another deep plié while the ballerina stands behind him — a rare example in Balanchine of the woman steadying the man. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z And the great theme of the pas de deux, which might be lost on the children, was written on a dare. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z “I think of them as duets, or fugues. Some dance a pas de deux. Many are six degrees incarnate,” he says. | From the Design Curator Murray Moss, a Book of Unexpected Juxtapositions 2014-05-06T21:49:33Z You certainly watch a pas de deux differently when you’ve just been told its dancers will get married; you look less for choreography than for gossipy clues to their relationship. Dance Review: A Way With Balanchine (and With a Talking Dancer, Too) 2010-09-17T22:28:00Z This season he will dance two more Ashton/Dowell roles — Oberon in “The Dream” and the “Awakening” pas de deux from “The Sleeping Beauty.” The Watch List: American Ballet Theater?s Spring 2010-05-13T20:58:00Z The program opens with “Luminous,” a 40-minute video retrospective interwoven with diverse pas de deux danced live, which “tells the story of the company,” Mr. McAllister said. Australian Ballet Visits Lincoln Center 2012-06-10T02:23:44Z The Andante is a wistful pas de deux between the first violin and the first viola, here the Calidore’s Jeremy Berry, who produced an unusually bright and tangy sound. Review: A Quartet With Sunny Energy and Grunge-Band Grit 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The one dance that’s indubitably a no-no for the Joyce is, curiously, a pas de deux, so the issue is scarcely one of crowding. | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-10-20T22:03:23Z His tortured pas de deux with Ms. Taymor dominates the book. And Now, a ‘Spider-Man’ Tell-All 2013-08-29T21:57:46Z And this pas de deux proves the highlight of the ballet. Dance Review: What Do Women (or Men) Want? A Gala?s Question 2010-10-08T22:58:00Z The eye slides from one pas de deux to the next and then back toward the vertical blinds that serve as a projection screen and then forward toward a new scene. ‘Alan Smithee Directed This Play,’ by Big Dance Theater 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Erica Pereira, now admirable in the “Serenade” Russian dance lead role and as the “Nutcracker” Sugar Plum Fairy, remains unacceptably flimsy in too many other parts, notably the “junior” pas de deux in “Chaconne.” Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Their complex interactions — one dancer holding still as the others darted around, a background trio occluding a central pas de deux — excitingly rearranged space, time and energy. Pam Tanowitz Brings Her Steps to Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Haberman was rehearsing a pas de deux when Verdon asked her why she was leaving her partner at a particular moment in the dance. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z In a series of three pas de deux, it takes on addiction and tempestuous relationships, as well as homophobic bullying and internalized homophobia. Seattle dance troupe Whim W'Him moves into new home at Intiman 2011-01-06T00:02:04Z Their pas de deux becomes a conversation: One, back to the audience, stands at the front of the stage while the other performs a solo. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z A pas de deux with Lucy and Shakespeare was inspired by a section of the book called “Happy Duet of Lucy and Shakespeare.” What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z For the pas de deux between the young lovers, Billy and Hope, Ms. Marshall reinvents the supple chemistry of Astaire and Rogers. | 'Anything Goes': A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! 2011-04-08T02:01:03Z This allowed the audiences to see, for instance, Romeo and Juliet’s shared bliss and longing in their first pas de deux, and Juliet’s anguish at discovering that Romeo is dead. Beer. Nachos. Arena. Ballet? 2011-06-19T21:57:50Z There also seemed to be some complex emotional agenda in the final pas de deux, but it didn't read at opera-house scale, and by that time it was much too late. Mariinsky Ballet steps splendidly, but revised 'Cinderella' falls flat 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z There are many Balanchine pas de deux in which the man does just what Mitchell demonstrated: offer a hand, reach inquiringly — enact specific manners or a conversation of niceties and politeness. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z I don’t remember him ever saying this to me before, in the many times we’d performed this pas de deux. My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Finally the pas de deux and ninth movement from Stanton Welch’s “Divergence” were staggering displays of rabble-rousing brashness, done to selections from George Bizet’s second “Arlésienne” suite. Dance Review: Australian Ballet at the Koch Theater 2012-06-13T22:18:36Z The pas de deux burst forth as a high-spirited game between Tyler Angle and the quick, clear and joyous Tiler Peck. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The program includes George Balanchine’s “Tarantella”; pas de deux from his “Chaconne” and “Stars and Stripes”; and a concert version of “Who Cares.” ArtsBeat: City Ballet Announces Eight Dancers Headed to Cuba 2010-10-21T21:49:00Z Paul Gibson's quietly elegant "The Piano Dance" also was performed, the highlights of which were a silky solo by Rachel Foster and a languorous pas de deux by Orza and Lesley Rausch. Alexei Ratmansky's ballet 'Concerto DSCH' is a joy 2011-03-21T23:33:15Z The “Herman Schmerman” pas de deux confronts the same conventions that Mr. Peck struggles with now, but it sidesteps them with a wink. Review: At City Ballet, More Youthful Invention From Justin Peck 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Most works on the program were contemporary, with the very notable exception of the grand pas de deux from “Flames of Paris,” which dates to 1932. Dancers take school fundraiser to amazing heights 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z But its central pas de deux is also its high point. Dance Review: City Ballet Focuses on Robbins at Koch Theater - Review 2012-01-22T23:08:16Z MacMillan's Concerto is one of the choreographer's rare abstract dance works, virtuoso dance set to Shostakovich's second piano concerto and hinging on a central pas de deux of beautifully sustained lyricism. This week's new dance 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Only toward the end, when Frankenstein and his Creature dance in a grappling pas de deux of mutual horror and dependence, does the dance finally evoke something of the novel’s fantastical gothic horror. Review: ‘Frankenstein,’ at Royal Ballet, Complete With Dissection 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z In their pas de deux he and Mr. North play with weight, parting and connecting until the swan cradles the prince. Dance Review: Prince?s Fate, Entwined With Desire 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z But in only one case was the pas de deux actually credited to Ivanov. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z But this woman and man join together in a traditional ballet pas de deux. Review: ‘Climate Control,’ Where Hot and Cold Mix It Up in a Pas de Deux 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z If this pas de deux is to be spellbinding, it needs performers who seem to pull casually from a well of vast resources. Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The gala also contained two pas de deux from complete ballets. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z The short features beauty and brutality as Olya, a ballerina and Evgeny, a boxer, engage in a kind of pas de deux. A guide to watching the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cheeky birds to grisly torture 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Both pas de deux in “Emeralds” begin with formal walking. Understanding Balanchine’s ‘Jewels,’ a Perfect Introduction to Ballet 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Unusually in Mr. Wheeldon’s work, the pas de deux, with their evocations of love and romance, don’t feel dominant. Review: ‘Cool Britannia’ Shows Off Native Land’s Talents 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The “Dear and Blackbirds” pas de deux illustrates Mr. Schumacher’s instinct for drama. BalletCollective Performs at the Skirball Center 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Many introduce a pas de deux here for the Snow Queen and her King — an anachronistic tradition that began around 1940. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Their interaction, building to a pas de deux, is uncannily, touchingly similar to that between a parent and a 1-year-old child. Review: In ‘ROBOT,’ Machines Perform With Humans at BAM 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “He transported curving movements of concentrated simplicity — an arm slowly dropping, a leg stretching sensuously — into a joyous pas de deux.” Review: A Trip From Light to Dark With the National Ballet of Canada 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “Very good, Sara, really,” he told her warmly after she finished a pas de deux full of tricky, slippery partnering, with Andrew Veyette. Liam Scarlett Creates a Work for City Ballet 2014-01-24T19:41:14Z The long pas de deux between the husband and wife creates its own clichés. Review: At Washington Ballet, 3 Affable, Immature Premieres 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In their pas de deux, he no sooner lifts her than her legs beat a frisson of response. ‘Cinderella’ to Join American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z I am reminded of this as I watch the two work on the tricky pas de deux Ratmansky is making for them. Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The encyclopaedist Denis Diderot danced an elaborate pas de deux around the Parisian censor for years by devising cunning literary disguises for notions that were anathema to the Catholic establishment. Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott – review 2012-06-01T21:55:09Z But as she eased into the music — especially in the pas de deux with Russell Janzen, above — her unassuming simplicity and grounded, captivating beauty were an instant reminder of what we had been missing. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z He remains central throughout the piece, later coming between Ms. Lamb and Mr. Bonelli as they perform a floating, ethereal pas de deux. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Four couples are highlighted in pas de deux that demonstrate a body’s capacity to swoop and dip, even if they offer little depth. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z More interesting was Mr. Wheeldon’s evocation of Sargent’s thoughts as he imagined painting Amélie, and a tastefully amorous, if brief, pas de deux for Sargent and de Belleroche that suggested the intensity of suppressed longing. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Solos and pas de deux are set against and between shifting ensemble groupings, and the dancing is filled with gorgeously inventive, seamless swirling lifts and ice-skater-like turns. Review: ‘Cool Britannia’ Shows Off Native Land’s Talents 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z When he finally offers it, they battle through a rough, often violent, pas de deux. Dance Review: City Ballet Dances 3 Works Set to Violin Concertos 2014-02-14T22:37:35Z And is there any other choreographer today for whom a male-female duet is so truly a pas de deux, a dance in which man and woman keep doing steps? 2010-01-13T23:47:00Z Act I’s peasant pas de deux was danced with touching enthusiasm and purity by Sarah Lane and Joseph Gorak. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Giselle’ 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The first pas de deux, however, was excerpted from the second movement of “Cruel World,” by the Canadian James Kudelka to Tchaikovsky music. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z In their pas de deux, Ms. Miller showed the ability to laugh at herself. Review: City Ballet Debuts in Season Finale 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z If the long pas de deux with corporations has taught rappers anything, it’s the importance of having your own business. Critic’s Notebook: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety 2013-05-07T18:41:15Z At a certain point in their Black Swan pas de deux the sheer joy of their dancing took hold. Dance Review: Ballet Theater?s ?Swan Lake? Shows Freedom and Its Cost 2010-06-23T22:09:00Z For many of us, though, the evening’s climax was the exalted pas de deux from “Diamonds.” Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z A better title might have come from the next one, “Crime 101” — an elegantly choreographed pas de deux that is dedicated to “Mr. Steve McQueen,” and that lives up to that level of cool. A Master of Thrills Shows His Range, and His Bite 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Apart from its famous pas de deux, the ballet used to be largely unknown in the West. On the Frivolities of Ballet, the Contradictory Art 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z There were moments — the second act pas de deux, Ms. Murphy’s whirling third act solo, Mr. Hallberg’s dazzling jumps — in which the dancers made you forget the tedium of the material. Dance Review: Note to Self: A Good Pair of Shoes Always Ends Up Paying for Itself 2011-06-22T22:10:02Z More than equal to the flirtatiousness and flick jetés of Act 1, she brings fragrant grace notes to the classical passages and a fine precision of line to the grand pas de deux. Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:13Z These were preceded by “La Favorita,” a pas de deux by Petal Miller-Ashmole that seemed to be trying hard to duplicate the “Don Quixote” pas de deux. Dance Review: Australian Ballet at the Koch Theater 2012-06-13T22:18:36Z At a performance with Veyette a week before her farewell, in the pas de deux, the two kept seeking each other out with their eyes. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z But at 100 minutes or so, it feels uncomfortably like a long one-act, an extended pas de deux about a prickly friendship. In ‘Chinese Coffee,’ Louise Lasser Directs Austin Pendleton 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z All the feeling missing in “Walpurgisnacht” was present in the pas de deux from Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” thanks to the tender yet slightly mysterious performance by Farrell regulars Heather Ogden and Kirk Henning. Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Atmosphere came late to the party 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Waller-Bridge realized early on that Eve and Villanelle were more than just hero and villain; they were two broken women whose flaws bound them together in a twisted pas de deux. ‘Killing Eve’: The Showrunner and Stars on the Love Story Behind the Sleeper Hit 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Late in the “Diamonds” pas de deux, the ballerina evades her partner while the strings play tremolos. Understanding Balanchine’s ‘Jewels,’ a Perfect Introduction to Ballet 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z And soon begins a complex pas de deux. In "The Painter and the Thief," an artist paints a portrait of the man who stole her masterpiece 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z It distills Shakespeare’s complexity into balletic perfection, with Oberon and Titania’s rapturous final encounter surely one of the most beautiful pas de deux in all of classical dance. The Week Ahead: June 6 ? 12 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z As part of it, Calvin Royal III, an African-American soloist at American Ballet Theater, performed the “Agon” pas de deux with Unity Phelan of City Ballet. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z From the rehearsal score, we now understand that Siegfried simply danced this Act I pas de deux with a young woman described as the “first villager.” ‘Swan Lake’ Discoveries Allow for a Deeper Dive Into Its History 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Amid the opening passage of the Act III grand pas de deux, she suddenly flashed a smile across the stage at another companion. Dance Review: Natalia Osipova Takes Don Quixote Airborne 2010-06-04T22:24:00Z The “Molto Vivace” pas de deux, choreographed by Stephen Baynes, was far from molto vivace. Dance Review: Australian Ballet at the Koch Theater 2012-06-13T22:18:36Z The wedding pas de deux from “The Sleeping Beauty” is fully grown-up. Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Includes ‘Harlequinade’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z He also is sufficiently tall and muscular to partner and lift ballerinas in demanding pas de deux. Ballet treasures from the Treasure State 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z At the end of “Flight Pattern,” she and Marcellino Sambé offer a beautifully danced, grief-stricken pas de deux — more balletic than the rest of the piece — as snow falls around them. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Yes, there was a pas de deux by Agnes de Mille from “The Other,” but with that was yet another ballet set to Bach and called, most unimaginatively, “Concerto.” Dance Review: Medhi Bahiri and de Mille Works by Ballet NY - Review 2011-11-20T22:59:48Z In the pas de deux, the ballerina has a solo on point with both legs held straight; she looks doll-like. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z There's just one slightly questionable feature – the awakening pas de deux that Wright inserts for Aurora and her prince. Sleeping Beauty 2010-04-21T20:45:00Z A restless, fun-loving party animal, he was the black sheep of his respectable family, and was a tanguero at a time when Argentina’s national dance was still considered a sordid working-class pas de deux. Che Guevara’s brother: ‘Ernesto must be pulled from his pedestal’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z And in Ashton’s shimmering pas de deux, they used classical dancing to crack open the playful, mysterious, elusive energy of desire. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z In the “Swan Lake” pas de deux, Ms. Boylston found time to use her music expressively even within virtuosity; acute details of incidental footwork were as telling as the big bravura moments. Critic’s Notebook: The Vail International Dance Festival Turns 25 2013-08-04T21:58:01Z After we have seen their pas de deux, they reappear on the screen — tired, emptied, perhaps exalted, too. In ‘Dutch Doubles,’ 4 Choreographers, Inspired by 4 Artists 2014-04-21T12:35:07Z Here both Painter and Young Girl are forlorn and hurt; and their final pas de deux begins with amorous intimacy, with him touching her sensuously as if healing a broken wing. Review: ‘The Two Pigeons,’ Frederick Ashton’s Look at Love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z A persistent bass line skulked through the odd meters of “Compay” by Ms. Kihlstedt; with violin and saxophone in a pas de deux and transparently voiced piano parts, it conjured late-night Latin elegance. New Jazz Standards Quintet Makes Its Debut 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z I remembered hearing that Mitchell once described the pas de deux as two kittens playing. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “Each pas de deux has a very different temperature, reflecting the different stages of their relationship,” he said of the lead couple, whose forbidden romance is thwarted at every turn. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z In the final pas de deux, Mr. Carreño — who doesn’t have the virtuosity he once did, but pulls off the part through showmanship and strong partnering — looks as complacent as he did in Act II. Dance Review: ?The Sleeping Beauty? From American Ballet Theater 2010-06-15T22:47:00Z The climax is an intense pas de deux of reciprocal sensuality: a dream within a dream. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Muntagirov manages these with seamless ease, as he does the final pas de deux in which he must seem to dance, ravaged by grief, with Juliet’s dead body. Daria Klimentova shines at English National Ballet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The resulting menu is a pas de deux of Japanese and Spanish flavors. If you only have time for three meals in Cambridge, Mass., make sure they’re here 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z When he kneels in the balcony pas de deux and holds her aloft, she extends an arm upward in wonder, marvelously at ease in his arms. Dance Review: Ballet Theater’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-06-21T22:00:03Z Most gorgeous is “Dancing in the Dark,” in which Tony and Gaby, heretofore adversaries, take a walk through Central Park that slowly morphs into a pas de deux: courtship made palpable, poignant and rapturous. Review: Musical Triplets: 'The Band Wagon' Times Three 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z In a pas de deux bathed in flickering light, Helbert Pimenta and Silvia Gaspar looked like a single, four-limbed creature unraveling their way across the stage. Review: Brazilian dance troupe Grupo Corpo brings bright, buoyant fare to Seattle 2011-02-04T18:09:04Z Though this pas de deux requires no dancing from her hero beyond partnering and gestures, he looked in very good shape: slim and suggesting the same heartfelt integrity as ever. Review: Marcelo Gomes Returns to Honor Frederick Ashton 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z But late in the play, Ms. Rivera does kick up her heels in a joyous and mournful pas de deux with her younger self, played by Michelle Veintimilla. The Indomitable Chita Rivera, Back on Broadway in ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The ecstatically modulated lyricism of its pas de deux seems to harness all the passion that took him from working-class teenager to the top of ballet. MacMillan triple bill | Dance review 2010-03-24T22:05:00Z As they go through their ritualized, internalized gestures — including a bizarre, sad and lovely series of pas de deux with those barren trees — its inhabitants always seem to be searching for something. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stage Version of a Vampire Novel 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z And each has a central male-female pas de deux: ceremonious, harmonious, but also dramatic. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z Mixed in with the classical pas de deux and snowflakes are scenes of traditional Russian dance and circuslike feats of physicality. Dance Listings for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And he partnered Ms. Reichlen through their extremely long pas de deux with commanding assurance. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z Add to that the gala staple “Black Swan” pas de deux from “Swan Lake” and pieces reprised from the company’s recent seasons. Review | Questions swirl around Washington Ballet with guest artists and loss of Brooklyn Mack 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Her graduation performance was the pas de deux from "Le Corsaire," in which she was partnered by the young Nureyev. Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, Dies at 75 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Even a pas de deux between Stanley and Stella cedes control to the abused wife. Scottish Ballet's 'A Streetcar Named Desire' gives muscle to female characters 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The pas de deux from “William Tell” was by August Bournonville, which means that the beseeching and demurring should be especially innocent and playful. Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Includes ‘Harlequinade’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The pas de deux that follows is shot through with aspects of new self-awareness: “I was the girl for whom you fought,” and “I was imprisoned within a toy until you saved me.” Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? at BAM - Review 2011-12-15T23:14:49Z The resulting imbalance meant that in the serene Adagio, Ms. Mullova seemed to be enacting a pas de deux on her own, the oboe’s part reduced to a distant, tinny tinkle. Review: A Perfectly Acceptable Slice of Bach 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Adoration and enervation course together on “Dear Mom,” as Blanchard plays a pas de deux with a large string section. Listen to the Essential Terence Blanchard 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Desire and ballet are entwined in a smoldering pas de deux throughout this tightly choreographed thriller. Review | Lies, secrets and ‘The Nutcracker’: Megan Abbott’s suspense novel plumbs the dark side of dance 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z On Wednesday and Friday, she and Craig Hall guide each other through the otherworldly pas de deux. Dance: City Ballet Al Fresco 2013-07-05T16:52:05Z Or possibly to a plate of CBD-infused doughnuts with a chocolate dipping sauce, then an aerial pas de deux. At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z But by far the most delicious pleasure of "Venus in Fur" comes from watching two actors dazzle us in a psychosexual pas de deux expertly choreographed for the dramatic stage. 'Venus in Fur' is a delicious study of sexual power dynamics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z With its powerful sound and polyphonic possibilities it was like the male dancer in a pas de deux who acts as a foil for the violin’s more supple, slender tone and allows it to soar. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z Their main pas de deux is a famous obstacle course with diverse challenges; I mean it as a compliment that Mr. Suozzi, though handsome and dignified, made himself invisible, quietly framing the sparkling Ms. Woodward. Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z But each pas de deux became an inexpressive nothing; the dancers drew attention to their own skill and their modernity like models showing couture. Lucinda Childs and Alvin Ailey Troupe at Fall for Dance 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z This has been an unusually strong season for romantic pas de deux, what with the fantasy choreography in “On the Town” and “An American in Paris.” Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Marriott uses Ms. Osipova’s preternatural flexibility and dramatic intensity to fine effect, giving her striking pas de deux with both men as well as setting her between them. Alastair Marriott’s ‘Connectome’ opens in London 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Hee Seo, who danced Cinderella’s ballroom pas de deux with him, tends to soften the choreography’s dynamics, but showed much of its eloquence. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z In one section a tiny girl dreams of her older self in a romantic pas de deux. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop 2010-06-10T22:22:00Z Generous use of parachute silk, a feather hoop, tree saplings, long tendrils, PVC tubes as arm extensions, flexible poles as antennae, giant flags, hoops, boxes and a triceratops skeleton that does a pas de deux. A cornucopia from Momix 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Far more subtle and strange was the pas de deux between Ms. Chuma and the limousine. Dance Review: Yoshiko Chuma?s ?A-C-E One? at the River to River Festival 2010-07-08T21:23:00Z Mr. Ratmansky’s two central “Nutcracker” pas de deux remain tough assignments. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z The balcony pas de deux that followed was a flood of sensuous dance contradicting all the courteous behavior that had gone before. In This ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Ballet, a Rebel Juliet 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In the second movement, a gorgeous, somber pas de deux pulls the focus inward, like sheltering in place. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The spectators hear of a friendship burgeoning long before the two meet, and theirs is a pas de deux of sorts, its rhythms produced by flirtatiousness, guarded admissions and word games. Review: In ‘Platform 2015,’ Will Rawls and Kaitlyn Gilliland Perform a ‘Dance Dialogue’ 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Thursday’s program mixes and matches Balanchine with other quintessential City Ballet works, including Christopher Wheeldon’s “After the Rain” pas de deux. Dance Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:33:23Z Like Fred Astaire teaming with Ginger Rogers, dance has found a perfect partner for a new kind of pas de deux: horror. When Extremes Attract: Dance and Horror’s New Pas de Deux 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Mitchell was the first black principal dancer at New York City Ballet, where George Balanchine, in 1957, choreographed “Agon,” a ballet featuring a pas de deux with Mr. Mitchell and Diana Adams. Columbia Acquires Archives of Arthur Mitchell, Dance Pioneer 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z If that sounds like a gross mismatch, fear not: Ziegler largely dusts the floor with LaBeouf, at least in the early going of their modern-dance rooted pas de deux. Watch: Sia's 'Elastic Heart' with Shia LaBeouf and Maddie Ziegler 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, a distracting costume mishap marred the pas de deux for the Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier, Andrew Veyette. ‘George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,’ Back at Lincoln Center 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The final image — a freeze frame of a pas de deux staged to resemble a triumphal Communist poster — perfectly captures the film’s overall effect: it’s strenuously brainless. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z Through much of the pas de deux, Ms. Hod, who danced Sunday, seemed more guarded in revealing herself. New York City Ballet Introduces Its Future With a Flurry of ‘Nutcracker’ Debuts 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z And their first rapturous, floor-rolling, limb-entwining, passion-dazed duet — which contains what may be the longest, most acrobatic kiss ever sustained while dancing — finds an intensity equal to the great balcony scene pas de deux. Review: In Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a Story of Even More Woe 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Their interaction feels combative, but also erotic, like a sensuous pas de deux. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z In 1957, Balanchine choreographed “Agon,” set to Stravinsky and featuring a central pas de deux for Mr. Mitchell and a white ballerina, Diana Adams. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z But that wasn’t the only reason the pas de deux was a shell of its actual self on Saturday night. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Ionesco wrote brilliant absurdist pas de deux in “The Lesson” and “The Chairs.” Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z Yet none of these women opened up all the ranges of color this great role can have; the pas de deux and the all-female-supported adagio tended toward the monochrome. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z The “After the Rain” pas de deux, a mood study of glowing male-female interdependence, is one of those rare dance studies in controlled slow tempo that excites audiences everywhere. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z Two years later, George Balanchine, who founded City Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein, made his modernist masterpiece “Agon,” which featured a pas de deux for Mr. Mitchell and Diana Adams. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z “Woundwork” is essentially a double pas de deux, where your eye is kept moving from one gorgeous moment to another, as they happen simultaneously across the stage. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z One pas de deux for Ms. Whelan and Mr. Angle depended on almost constant partnering as she connected line and drama in his arms. City Ballet Presents ‘Pictures From an Exhibition’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Never mind going to meet any Sugar Plum Fairy — instead they get to dance the music of her pas de deux themselves. Dance Review: A ?Nutcracker? Sprouts Alter Egos 2010-12-24T22:30:03Z In her pas de deux with Tiit Helimets, the moment when she flies effortlessly from lying flat on the stage into a full-sail arch above him felt like a miracle and left the audience gasping. Review | Sleek modernism in the San Francisco Ballet’s new works 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But the classical pas de deux takes this ballet to another universe. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z At the Vail Dance Festival this summer, dancing Balanchine’s “Tarantella” pas de deux and a Matthew Neenan world premiere, he blew his audience away with speed and brilliance, charm and nonchalance. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Dancers performed the grand pas de deux from the third act of “Don Quixote” while the society set got its sea legs. Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z “It’s a welcoming form in the city, as opposed to another big solid box,” Ms. Gang said of her design, with its inward-swerving scallops doing a pas de deux with the lobes of the cloverleaf. Critic's Notebook: A Vision to Avoid Demolition for ’70s Pioneer 2012-10-17T19:46:04Z She and Robbins were close, and in this pas de deux, while there are brief moments of physical contact, the two dancers seem to be guided by their senses, lost in an in-between world. Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z That fluidity — a tensile, elongated stretch and flow — along with Mr. Scarlett’s keen feel for inventive pas de deux work, was immediately apparent in the piece, which is set to Poulenc’s organ concerto. Liam Scarlett Creates a Work for City Ballet 2014-01-24T19:41:14Z This switch makes possible a romantic pas de deux between him and Irene. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z They capitalized on Mr. Donohue’s protest in what seems, in retrospect, like an awfully well-choreographed pas de deux to rekindle the culture wars. Abroad: In Britain, Separation of Art and State 2011-01-25T23:24:38Z Only Samson's Hair, consisting of a protracted pas de deux between the hero and Delilah, tests one's patience by being, like its subject, overlong. Biblical Tales 2010-08-11T21:45:00Z We walked for an hour, downstairs and upstairs and down again, looking in on card games and interrogations, spying on an erotic pas de deux. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z By that point we’ve been lulled by all the charm and pompons and sweeping pas de deux. American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Whipped Cream’: A fleeting sugar high 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In the finale of Act III, their pas de deux is really just a single extremely long phrase of supported adagio. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Returns to the American Ballet Theater Stable 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Pantomime dominates the first half, but Act II culminates in a breathtaking pas de deux for the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. Dance Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z At the end of “Infra,” a gentle pas de deux to Mr. Richter’s plaintive string melodies, the piece seems to offer some kind of resolve through its tender, fragile human connections. Dance: Joffrey Ballet Takes on Wayne McGregor?s ?Infra? 2012-02-12T15:31:06Z Two elaborate pas de deux interestingly offer the more confusing aspects of attraction and conquest. Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A male City Ballet dancer once wrote me that in this pas de deux, nobody looks at the man anyway. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z The program — a hodgepodge of solos and pas de deux from various works associated with these figures — had nothing to do with Plisetskaya’s repertory, nor was her name or image ever invoked. Review: The Mariinsky Ballet Offers Works Honoring Its Legends 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z In two pas de deux, Mr. Martins seems to want to penetrate the underlying darkness of the Russian music, but his direction remains unfulfilled: What does the man really want? From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Though “pas de deux” means “steps for two,” it is not unusual to hear dancers now use the term to mean the task of lifting and supporting women. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z A Playfully Roasted Old Chestnut There’s no Sugar Plum Fairy in “The Hard Nut,” ’s version of “The Nutcracker,” and no prima-ballerina dances to the music wrote as a grand pas de deux. Dance Review: A Playfully Roasted Old Chestnut 2010-12-12T23:28:00Z On Monday, Arthur Mitchell, an alumnus of the school who died last year, will be honored with a performance of the pas de deux from Balanchine’s “Agon.” The Week in Arts: Idris Elba Revives Luther; Margaret Thatcher Sees the Queen 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z She said she did not feel thwarted by the move of the aerial pas de deux to earth. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z Ms. Kowroski recalled that Ms. Farrell began their first rehearsal by asking her how she saw the two dancers in their pas de deux. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z They coped with the difficulties of the choreography with admirable finesse and offered a radiant final pas de deux, but neither are as interesting to watch as they might be. A Proudly Unsentimental ‘Nutcracker’ at Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z They were working on “Journey,” a pas de deux Bruning choreographed to Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.” A journey of many steps leads to Washington 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Ratmansky liked the solo so much that when Ballet Theater filmed his version of the “Nutcracker” pas de deux over the holidays for virtual release, he decided to include it. Alexei Ratmansky: From Hibernation to Bubble Bernstein 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Between these pas de deux, however, the choreography feels less focused. Dance Review: ‘Metamorphosis Titian 2012’ at the Royal Ballet 2012-07-16T21:26:23Z Those cries of “Bravo!” that ring out after a spectacular pas de deux? Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z Two American Ballet Theater dancers practiced one of the notoriously difficult pas de deux from Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Nutcracker” this month, in a big studio near Union Square. Wendy Whelan, Tyler Angle and Others on Collaborating 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z She follows him, and after 90 minutes of random but often mesmerizing dance/acrobat numbers, they are reunited in a romantic aerial pas de deux. ‘Cirque du Soleil’: New 3D film is beautiful and strange 2012-12-26T18:17:21Z This winter, among other things, he’ll be accompanying “Sonatine,” a pas de deux by George Balanchine set to a dreamy piano sonata by Ravel, the musical equivalent of a watercolor by Pissarro. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z A pas de deux animates each of the score’s three movements, but these are folded into and out of group passages, often rhythmically and visually counterpointed. Review: ‘Cool Britannia’ Shows Off Native Land’s Talents 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Hers has been an unusual career, with her height limiting potential pas de deux partners; Lallone has performed more solo roles than other PNB principal ballerinas, and fewer classical duet roles. Ariana Lallone prepares to bow out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2011-03-30T23:08:55Z After a delayed flight, he went straight to rehearse the pas de deux with this teenage Brazilian Terpsichore. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Act II is marred by Mr. Wright’s introduction of Clara and the Nutcracker into almost all of the divertissement dances, but he at least leaves the grand pas de deux alone. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Nutcracker? in London, Four Different Versions 2012-01-02T23:38:52Z Her story was always in evolution; in pas de deux, she showed each different stage of feeling. Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Cinderella,’ Under Alexei Ratmansky 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Sui’s costumes — including metallic skirts for the women, which were removed, mercifully, for the pas de deux — were burdened with so many folk dance details that they looked old-fashioned in the worst way. Review: At New York City Ballet, an Intriguing Glimpse of the Future 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Here are the knock-kneed chorus-girl lines of “Stravinsky Violin Concerto”; the acerbic, experimental partnering of the opening pas de deux in “Four Temperaments”; the acrobatic, pushed-to-the-limit flexibility of “Agon”; the high-spirited jogging groups of “Rubies.” Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z This made musically attentive performances in the Bournonville — from Sara Mearns and Tyler Angle in the pas de deux, and Indiana Woodward and Anthony Huxley in the pas de six — especially satisfying. Review: Peck Adapts Andersen, and Good Fights Evil Amid Fine Plumage 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z But this pas de deux was all about the prop. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-10-31T22:38:56Z The ballroom pas de deux features some absurd grappling, with Guillaume manhandling her calf and then her thigh. Dance Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s Take on Prokofiev’s ‘Cinderella’ 2013-05-07T21:35:23Z Apart from the pas de deux, the final act, much shortened, offers more inconsequential staging. Dance Review: ?The Sleeping Beauty? From American Ballet Theater 2010-06-15T22:47:00Z Lorde even tests her survival skills by shooting down coconuts with a rifle, and showcases her notorious dancing in a late-night pas de deux with a bare lightbulb. Watch Lorde's Epic Solo Vacation in "Perfect Places" Video 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Things grow even weirder, alternately pitch-black to the point of slapstick, when Walter’s wife dies and the two men engage in a strange pas de deux. The Essential Patricia Highsmith 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Although the spirited Ms. Anglada is alone onstage, her every action becomes a pas de deux, whether it’s removing her coat, which turns into a comic wrestling match, or blowing a feather around. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Stock's response was to place a greater emphasis on contemporary dance and pas de deux. Royal Ballet School director dies 2014-04-30T10:12:58Z Mr. Martins did offer suggestions on the story: in particular, a lovers’ pas de deux in the third act. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z His troupe is called Ballet Flamenco Jesús Carmona, and it’s not hard to identify several ballet-derived ingredients — as in the partnering, arm positions and lightness of one male-female pas de deux. At Flamenco Festival, Finding the Force Beneath the Glitz 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z My own tally — counting both items as short as the “Tschaikovsky pas de deux” and as long as the three-part “Jewels” as one each — is over 60. Dance Review: Eglevsky Ballet?s Rare ?? la Fran?aix? by Balanchine 2010-08-22T22:30:00Z Mr. Evans and Ms. Whelan instill the pas de deux with a sense of air and light without corrupting its spare, crystalline authority. Dance Review: ?Agon? and ?Chaconne? at New York City Ballet 2010-05-20T21:22:00Z The setting transforms into a crucible for her, confronting her with past traumas she must conquer in a lethal pas de deux of dizzying intensity. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Filaments from light bulbs were transformed into dancing insects — they even did a pas de deux — as their fine threads quivered like antennae within a halo of light. Dance Review: The World Spins (Bicycle Wheels, Too) 2011-02-27T23:11:42Z I couldn’t believe I was the sole witness to this elaborate, tender pas de deux. Journeys: A Limited Human Footprint for a Natural Wonder 2010-10-22T19:48:00Z Twenty minutes into the ballet, a series of sharp string jabs cued the ballad, which accompanied a final, sombre pas de deux: Dawn Landes, Barefoot at Lincoln Center 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z The main attraction, apart from some lovely, lyrical moments by Paunika Jones in the pas de deux and the sight of six elated girls from the Brooklyn Ballet Youth Ensemble, were the costumes. Dance Review: Brooklyn Ballet’s Spring Show, With a Little Christmas Added 2014-04-11T22:41:21Z In transposing Strindberg’s psychosexual pas de deux from 19th-century Sweden to an economically distressed Pennsylvania, he has created reasonable analogues for the markers of class that divide the play’s central characters. | 'Cattywampus': ?Cattywampus? at Incubator Arts Project - Review 2012-01-12T23:37:24Z I began to imagine the “Don Quixote” pas de deux and everything else with strobe effects. American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z “Duo Concertant,” a 1972 pas de deux set to Stravinsky, begins as two dancers listen intently to a pianist and a violinist. Robert Fairchild Says Goodbye to City Ballet With Balanchine and Roses 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s a very hard, long pas de deux. School of American Ballet’s Gutsy Kids: ‘They Just Have to Dance’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z There were bright, fast turns, the feet lightly pricking the stage; a swirly romantic pas de deux followed, then a stage-filling arsenal of legs, shoulders and resolve. Dance Theatre of Harlem reborn 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z As Cinderella, Anjara Ballesteros is lovely, and the only dancer not overdoing it; there are even moments in the couple’s sweeping pas de deux that depart from Mr. Maillot’s usual emphasis on jagged, contained movement. Review: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s Rendition of ‘Cinderella’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z But the terrific blaze with which they opened the long pas de deux was not quite maintained. New York City Ballet Performs George Balanchine Classics 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Its contrasting combination of severe modernity and classicism, its angular strangeness and folk-dance ease, the staggering inventiveness of its two pas de deux all retain the force of the new with every encounter. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z First, she will dance that final “Nutcracker,” the highlight of which, for her, is the pas de deux. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z At the core of the story is a pas de deux between Eve and Villanelle. Murder most foul: Killing Eve’s lethal mistake 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The second act, devoted to dancing, culminates in one of Balanchine’s most exalting pas de deux. Finding the Right ‘Nutcracker’ for You and Yours 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And yet, the second movement pas de deux begins with detailed footwork for its woman, marvelously shaded to its music, that shows why Mr. Wheeldon is one of today’s foremost dance-makers. Review: Sarasota Ballet, With Ashton as the Beating Heart of a Triple Bill 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Each has a pas de deux in which the ballerina seems like a magical wild beast whom her partner keeps at arm’s length. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z It was a rich performance, despite some wobbles in the pas de deux with her Cavalier. Miriam Miller Talks About Her Success at New York City Ballet 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Without a warm-up run she led us into Captain Jack’s Trees, a forest of tall, silent fir and hemlock perfectly spaced for a high-velocity pas de deux with the stout trunks. Next Stop: In British Columbia, Little Big Resort 2013-12-19T19:58:31Z Later, returning for the grand pas de deux with Robert Fairchild as her cavalier, she found drama, just enough dazzle, and even suggestions of ecstasy. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z Hornaday and Douthat are correct that the traditional sex scene – a tasteful "pas de deux" between glossy stars, typically straight and vanilla, presented as a spectacle for our visual pleasure – has become increasingly rare. The sex scene isn’t disappearing — it’s simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy reality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z A series of pas de deux dominates, but they are unpredictably structured, seamlessly interwoven with the flocking patterns of the corps de ballet, and punctuated by slightly ungainly, angled lifts that relieve the prettiness. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z Her coordination was also a relief in “Contested Space,” Mr. Byrd’s monotonous arrangement of solos and pas de deux set to music by the Brazilian electronic composer Amon Tobin. Dance Review: Dance Theater of Harlem II at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:28Z With its mechanized corps and four pas de deux, the ballet seems as if it were made in a factory. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Tribute to a Fast Train 2014-02-05T21:50:27Z And never in a pas de deux or de trois is a woman set apart from her male partner. 2010-02-11T23:18:00Z “We are very excited because we are back to being able to partner,” he said, as student couples, vaccinated but masked, rehearsed different pas de deux. Perspective | Interlochen has been building an arts-education hub for almost a century. Now it’s all about building artists. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Incredibly, their restive pas de deux gains a little traction, and both start to thrive. Books of The Times: The Arrogant Years ? By Lucette Lagnado ? Review 2011-09-08T22:27:21Z The main thread involved Negan and Carl, who came together at the Sanctuary, after Carl’s failed revenge mission, for a pas de deux that alternated between paternal and bullying, conspiratorial and menacing. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 7: Dictatorship 101 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It added up to little, unfortunately, unlike the night's opening pas de deux, Millepied’s “Closer.” In Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project program, the name to remember is Noé Soulier 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Its central pas de deux, created for Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams, was intended for a black man and a white woman. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s a pas de deux you wish they could have danced all night. Review | You’ll be happy you gave yourself a night off to watch Billy Elliot soar again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In this version the Nutcracker also grows up to partner her: in this climactic pas de deux four other men assist him in a vast and tiresome array of showy lifts, throws and catches. Critic’s Notebook: Three ‘Nutcrackers’ on one Sunday 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z “Concerto Six Twenty-Two,” for example, contains a very moving pas de deux for two men. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z This novel is more of a pas de deux between Laney and Miss Baby, whose lives hurtle toward a climax that seems every bit as inevitable as it is brutal. Books of The Times: Two Women Love One Man, Worthy of Neither 2011-06-19T21:55:18Z Their consorts behaved perfectly; if they even noticed in each pas de deux that they were dancing with a different woman, they were much too discreet to let anyone see. City Ballet Features Works by Christopher Wheeldon and Troy Schumacher 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z And spice enters the picture in the grand pas de deux, in which Aaron Mattocks and Nic Petry manage balances and twisting shifts of weight while sucking each other’s thumbs. Dance Review: ‘Nut/Cracked,’ a Holiday Ballet by David Parker 2012-12-21T22:15:45Z In that moment, the underlying idea of the pas de deux becomes clear. Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The pas de deux is about the chivalry whereby a man showcases a woman and joins her in perfect harmony. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z In a pas de deux, the gentleman’s role is often to allow the ballerina to leap higher, suspend in air and pirouette longer. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z It's a lesson in Buddhism disguised as a romantic pas de deux — or maybe vice versa. 'The Fourth Noble Truth' a meditation on Buddhism, seduction 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The grand design of “Outlier” is clear: it progresses from an opening pas de deux to an intricate closing nonet. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Premiere of ?Outlier? 2010-05-16T21:54:00Z The spare purity of the final pas de deux offers a glimpse of the unity of body and spirit, emotion refined into abstraction. Review: Ballet Is Spectacle in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z On Monday, in conjunction with the school’s gala, a tribute to Arthur Mitchell will include the pas de deux from “Agon.” 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z One pas de deux — the evening’s most poetic episode — introduced the audience to the season’s most important new acquisition: Frederick Ashton’s three-act “Cinderella,” set to Prokofiev’s score, which enters the repertory in June. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z On the other hand, there are high spots: the staging of the “Lonely Town” pas de deux, the spirited night-club scenes. An “On the Town” for Our Time 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z It also involves a pas de deux between a male dancer in drag and an Old Dacha Dweller. Have Any Point Shoes In a Man?s Size 9? 2011-06-03T18:22:07Z At the Joyce, Mr. Gomes will perform the pas de deux from Frederick Ashton’s ballet “The Two Pigeons” alongside the Sarasota principal Victoria Hulland. Marcelo Gomes to Return to the New York Stage With Sarasota Ballet 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z In these two great works — as often elsewhere — Ashton and Balanchine show why, for many people, the male-female pas de deux is where ballet reaches its most moving. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The company performed all of it — not just the final pas de deux, which is widely presented by itself all over the world. Dance Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s Triple Bill 2014-05-11T21:31:32Z And instead of a romantic pas de deux, they do a tap duet of terrific sibling synchronicity. Review: A ‘Nutcracker’ Taps and Swings 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Several American “Nutcracker”s borrow steps in the Act 2 Sugar Plum pas de deux from the 1892 Ivanov choreography, but Mr. Webre’s more so. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Let the Taped Music Ring 2010-12-07T18:00:00Z This year is the 60th anniversary of “Agon,” Balanchine’s ballet that showcased a trailblazing pas de deux for a white ballerina, Diana Adams, and a black male dancer, Arthur Mitchell. When Two Men Fall in Love on the Ballet Stage, and Why It Matters 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The choreography, for six dancers, alternates between controlled, rather stern, sculptural pas de deux, and jaunty, slightly jokey male trios. In ‘Dutch Doubles,’ 4 Choreographers, Inspired by 4 Artists 2014-04-21T12:35:07Z It’s heartening therefore to report on the exceptional luster shown by the young Skylar Brandt in the peasant pas de deux on Saturday and Wednesday afternoons. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In the grand pas de deux, her Nutcracker Prince, a strapping Todd Hanebrink, appears. ‘Nutcracker Rouge' Is More Naughty Than Nice 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Mravinsky rejected all the Kingdom of Sweets confectionery in favour of the rather scary second half of act one, the climactic pas de deux from act two and the ballet's closing scene. Philharmonia/Lazarev ? review 2010-12-15T23:20:01Z In it, a “classical” couple is pitted against a “modern” pair, then they change partners, and the ballerina dances a long fluid pas de deux with the faunlike modern-dance man. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z The biggest puzzle about the 1877 score has always been the famous so-called Black Swan pas de deux, the music usually used for Siegfried’s ballroom dances with Odile. ‘Swan Lake’ Discoveries Allow for a Deeper Dive Into Its History 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z “The Cage” is a lurid retelling of the second act of “Giselle,” in animal/insect terms, with a bitter ending; “Andantino” is an expansive and romantic male-female pas de deux. Dance Review: Robbins and Balanchine Cleanse the Palate at City Ballet 2013-05-29T21:44:32Z When she enters to dance a grand pas de deux with her cavalier, what’s going on between them? The Sugar Plum Fairy: An Enigma Wrapped in a Beautiful Dance 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Of all the monuments to the Alice books, the finest has long been one of the best literary pas de deux in English, Martin Gardner’s “The Annotated Alice.” Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z For example, in “Artifact” there’s the beginning of a kind of gravitational extension in the pas de deux. 'He's turning traditional dance on its head': Why S.F., Houston and Seattle troupes are in L.A. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “The fact that Mr. Balanchine took upon himself to put me with a Caucasian ballerina and to do a wonderful pas de deux was unheard of.” Columbia Acquires Archives of Arthur Mitchell, Dance Pioneer 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The group keeps absorbing their pas de deux. Review: At City Ballet, More Youthful Invention From Justin Peck 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z I scooped her up and rushed up the aisle, just as Julie Kent and someone began a slow, romantic pas de deux. ArtsBeat: Cheap Seats and Dance: When Children Are Involved 2011-02-02T18:40:30Z Seeing a performance helped, because Mari and Hakon's quiet cadenzas conveyed intimate dances, pas de deux, for the two solo instruments. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z A young romance backed by a cheeky ukulele number abuts beautiful acrobatic pas de deux, lit by actor-held spotlights. Theater meets circus act in Seattle Rep’s joyful, wistful ‘Passengers’ 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z A recent weekday rehearsal at ABT’s studios found the two going over some intricate pas de deux, or duets — navigating tricky lifts, smoothing over trouble spots, figuring out pacing. ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ brings food, magic, spice and lust to NY’s grandest ballet stage 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Other favorites she cited were two by Balanchine: the “Agon” pas de deux, and the Act II pas de deux in “Midsummer.” Longtime PNB dancer Lesley Rausch prepares for final bows 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z And you might get another peek at Rausch, who’s dancing Titania on Thursday night and the Act II pas de deux at Saturday’s matinee, before she slips away. ‘Midsummer’ lets us see every element of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z That would open “a new frontier,” she says, revealing giant black holes performing a hidden pas de deux. Giant array of low-cost telescopes could speed hunt for radio bursts, massive black holes 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The pas de deux featured a lot of platitudes, a couple of tense moments and a number I can’t shake: 13,000. The U.S. and Mexico’s deadly dance 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Even the audience, suddenly aware of enacting an unexpected pas de deux with an apparition, collaborates in creating consciousness of vernacular bodily actions. Review: Dancer Simone Forti's moving survey show at MOCA 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Then came the episode “Long Long Time,” which featured Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett in a gentlemen’s pas de deux of complexity, tenderness and craft. We must honor the man behind Gustavo 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z She returns for the piece de resistance — the pas de deux of the Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier, with its dramatic soaring lifts and fish dives. Review: A Sugarplum Fairy waves a sweet ‘Nutcracker’ goodbye 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z CNN devoted much of its early coverage to a pas de deux between Mr. King, the network’s motor-mouthed map maestro, and Jake Tapper, the network’s lead anchor on a major election night. Patience, Please! Networks Urge Caution on a Chaotic Midterm Night. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The flaying and dismembering of a deer, a task shared by two hunters, unfolds as a vigorous pas de deux. Review | It’s movement, not dialogue, that carries Synetic’s ‘Host and Guest’ 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The day was a pas de deux — by tradition. Liz Truss gets queen’s nod, becomes U.K. prime minister, in day of pageantry 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The parity in the pas de deux these friends performed extended to the nudity on display, what with Chastain requesting a quid pro quo from her co-star regarding that piece of the production. Why Oscar Isaac saw the 'Scenes From a Marriage' two-hander as one role 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z That worked well for the solos and pas de deux, but colors were washed out on the long shots of the ensemble dances that ended each half of the program. Review: The Paris Opera Ballet's Hollywood Bowl debut is a balletic, awe-inspiring feat 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, the series can be watched as dance, a pair of alternating actorly pas de deux, set off by ensemble pieces, and is completely enjoyable as such. How do you make D.C. drama into enjoyable TV? Throw out the history books 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z In his seven dances, consisting of virtuoso ensemble numbers, solos and pas de deux, athletic dancers in earth colors are the expression of survival, with community meaning everything. Commentary: Why jazz pianist Jason Moran is dance's most sought-after composer 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Gazing into each other’s eyes is all that is needed for oxytocin to be simultaneously secreted in the gazer and the gazed upon, a feedback loop that induces a socially uplifting pas de deux. Opinion | We Will Forget Much of the Pandemic. That’s a Good Thing. 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer resume their deadly pas de deux as “Killing Eve” kicks off its fourth and final season. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Killing Eve,’ the SAG Awards, the State of the Union and more 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z “But I didn’t know then that there was so much drama in the 'white swan’ pas de deux,” Lee says. How four Washington Ballet dancers are diving back into ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z We did “Snow” and would watch the principals do their pas de deux beforehand. Hundreds of ‘Nutcracker’ performances later, 4 PNB dancers discuss growing up with the holiday ballet classic 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The story of Cain’s murder of his brother Abel comes later in a brutally muscular pas de deux. Review: Odyssey Theatre's 'The Serpent' resurrects a 1960s theatrical landmark 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Cerrudo’s gift for intricate, unexpected movement is on display here; both in two slithery pas de deux and a series of solos in which the dancers seem partnered by that eerily shiny floor. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s triple bill takes off, with cowboys, a mirrory floor and a few old friends 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z No one grabbed anyone by the shoulders — the two were not even in the same room — but it was nonetheless a riveting pas de deux of insinuation and attempted blackmail. Fox News made Matt Gaetz a GOP star. Now he's trying to take Fox News' Tucker Carlson down with him 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z This pas de deux between horror and hope is reflected in monuments to Black liberation leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean. Opinion | Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z His ability to create magic in a lyrical pas de deux, not once but twice — it feels magical to dance. Hundreds of ‘Nutcracker’ performances later, 4 PNB dancers discuss growing up with the holiday ballet classic 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Riseborough, who builds to an enthralling symbiotic pas de deux with Abbott as their characters battle within the same body, had been curious to meet Cronenberg as soon as she saw his first film. Inside the making of ‘Possessor Uncut,' the arthouse sci-fi thriller too extreme for the MPAA 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Shot in June, “Dance of Dreams” includes two solos and two pas de deux. Watch this 'Vertigo'-inspired dance film that's a love letter to San Francisco 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z But Malibu officials say their ban skirts that law in a bureaucratic pas de deux with the Coastal Commission, a state agency not subject to preemption. Malibu wants to ban all pesticides. The state of California says that's against the law 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Her walking-on-pointe pas de deux with partner Roman Belyakov, on the other hand, was clearly a challenge, as were those robotic and jerky arm gestures timed with the deep lunge. Review: With 90 dancers and grand Russian tradition, Mariinsky Ballet takes on 'Jewels' 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z An insightful pas de deux between physics and ballet. The social-media war, reclaiming classics from the alt-right, and a fusion of physics and dance: New in paperback 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Olivier Amiel, the assistant mayor, is adamant that the pas de deux between city and Gypsies must come to an end. The soul of Perpignan: how a Gypsy community halted the bulldozers 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the acting, a perfectly executed pas de deux of ideas, concentrates the restless mind. Review: ‘Niceties’ at the Geffen turns a college history paper into revolutionary war 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Her hand placed flat across his whole face, a tender but blinding gesture that winds into a mellifluous balletic pas de deux, hand to hand to body. Akram Khan Remakes “Giselle” 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The piece oscillates between moments of despair and connection in carefully structured pas de deux and larger groupings. ‘3×3’ carries on Whim W’Him’s streak of innovative, politically-inflected dance 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The internal and external anal sphincters then begin a culturally mediated pas de deux, the former pressing for release and the latter restricting discharge until the opportune moment. Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet Chamblee had never performed a pas de deux explicitly depicting two men in love. How a Group of Gay Male Ballet Dancers Is Rethinking Masculinity 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z A second lovely pas de deux, danced with soft fluidity by Elizabeth Murphy and Dylan Wald, echoes themes of the first; the two dancers, eerily, become one and then two again. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘All Premiere’ ranges from sublime to sardonic 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z As their lyrical pas de deux comes to an end, the lead Wili forcibly separates them with her cane and occupies herself with the errant Giselle, who must be brought into line. Akram Khan Remakes “Giselle” 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Their pas de deux is danced amid plants and, spectacularly, in the sculptural space between the hall and the amphitheater, the dancers reflected on the shiny steel. Review: Disney Hall's hidden corridors became a stage for dancers in Benjamin Millepied and L.A. Phil's 'Romeo and Juliet' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “The Fed isn’t powerless in this pas de deux, but it isn’t a fair fight,” said Mr. Conti-Brown. Trump Says He Doesn’t Want to Fire the Fed Chair. It Isn’t Clear If He Could 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He was very aware of the potential controversy of the central pas de deux in Agon. Arthur Mitchell obituary 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The last chapter of his life, stretching over the next four years, turned into what Lewis calls a pas de deux with Roosevelt—a frustrating, sometimes treacherous, but highly consequential relationship. Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z With the possible exception of his pas de deux with Vladimir Putin, nothing about the Trump presidency inspires so much public resistance from his fellow Republicans as the president’s zest for tariffs and trade wars. Opinion | Why Trump Can’t Quit Tariffs 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z All of this can make for a complicated pas de deux between politicians and the university. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Scientist? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z This is memorable not because we’re watching two straight actors perform a pas de deux of muted gay desire, but rather because of their difference in size. Welcome to the Age of the Twink 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z If only ever so briefly, “Show Dogs” transcends ghettoization in a delirious fantasy sequence in which Frank and Max perform a pas de deux to “The Time of My Life,” the theme from “Dirty Dancing.” Review | The talking-animal comedy ‘Show Dogs’ is no best of breed, but you may sit, stay. 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The Act II pas de deux, with Tisserand, became a study in rapture and capture; his arms trying to contain her, as she seemed to slip from swan to woman. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ soars 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The fish-forest pas de deux "is a really delicate interaction," she says. Dam building binge in Amazon will shred ecosystems, scientists warn 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z And as she returns to the original choreography, she’s grafting on the first two movements of the symphony, in the form of an extended pas de deux. Dance legend Twyla Tharp on truculent men, selling hot dogs and her idol Agatha Christie 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Like every other step in the unhappy pas de deux, this too was tweeted live. Relations between Israel and Jordan have become 'very dangerous' 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The opening moments of the documentary “Restless Creature” bring that description to life: Whelan, in a pas de deux from Jerome Robbins’ “Glass Pieces,” simply becomes the dance. ‘Restless Creature’ review: a graceful look at ballet dancer Wendy Whelan 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z In the pas de deux for Princess Tea Flower and Prince Coffee, he outdoes himself. A Dance of Sugar and Cream 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z That has resulted in a political pas de deux each year in which each party tries to raise as much as possible for its priorities. Alexandria council set to raise taxes, citing increasing costs for schools, Metro 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The joint news conference can be a delicate pas de deux, in which world leaders standing side by side strive to show mutual deference while speaking to their distinct national audiences. Round by round: what Angela Merkel can learn from other leaders' Trump sparring 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The relationship is a careful pas de deux. Boll Weevil: A Scourge That America and Mexico Fight Together 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The Queen not only dances to the Sugar Plum Fairy’s solo music but also in the climactic pas de deux. ‘The Nutcracker’ Review: Waltzing in the Windy City 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z La La Land's first act sets up Mia and Sebastian's relationship with a terrific mixture of energy and gravity, as they banter, flirt, and dance through one classically staged pas de deux after another. La La Land is a gloriously earnest Singin' in the Rain for the 21st Century 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Thus began the pas de deux of a great two-newspaper city rivalry. This is the battle that made Los Angeles — and a great newspaper war 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z There are nods to other ballets, as well, a pas de deux reminiscent of Sleeping Beauty, a sunburst pattern that recalls Balanchine’s Apollo, a whiff of Firebird. Justin Peck and the National's Bryce Dessner create a Most Incredible ballet 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Twin duets ensue that are richly poignant in their appropriate differences, setting up the concluding grand pas de deux, when the adult doppelgangers take over the Sugar Plum Fairy-Cavalier roles for a cathartic finale. American Ballet Theatre's new 'Nutcracker' makes an old tradition feel young 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z That pas de deux between clarity and obscurity allows for surprises in the novel’s denouement—a secret engagement, a proposal and even the sudden delivery of a baby. Why Jane Austen’s 'Emma' Still Intrigues 200 Years Later 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z She and the Chocolatier present Sarah and Leroy with an grand pas de deux followed by a finale with all the dancers. Dance company continues tradition of ‘Urban Nutcracker’ 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z But the pas de deux with the West is already underway. Unsanctioned science 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In an echo of their first telephonic pas de deux, he missed the call and did not hear her message. She Answered His Ad for a Roommate, Moved In and Never Left 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Back in the day, this pas de deux was standard practice for the Wimbledon winners. It’s Time to Appreciate Serena Williams’s Greatness 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Dr. Greene has spent much of his career at the University of Montana studying the pas de deux of predator and prey. Decoding the Cacophony of Birds’ Warning Calls 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Krohn bends his knees and demonstrates the “natural gestures,” which are, of course, far from natural, while Mr. Ross follows suit, and their loopy choreography becomes a comic pas de deux. Review of ‘The Liar’ at the Westport Country Playhouse 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z As the awkward pas de deux takes shape, Cuba is seeking to bolster its own scientific capacity. Feature: In from the cold 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Their pas de deux turns out to be occasionally thrilling and quite romantic, but the story flies off the rails when he takes her to meet his parents. ‘The Age of Adaline’ movie review 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z “We come to curse those who fire shots in the darkness,” the Rev. Starsky Wilson said as protesters banged drums and shouted slogans nearby in a night-long pas de deux in front of police headquarters. In Ferguson, struggling to be a bridge between tense cops, angry crowds 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z I'm just going to skip the strange pas de deux. Jonathan Gold drops anonymous restaurant critic mask 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z In 1994, a year and a half after the disastrous Supreme Court pas de deux, Governor Cuomo was defeated for a fourth term. Mario Cuomo: A Miscarriage of Justice 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Much like the backroom machinations that propelled Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” King’s push-me-pull-you pas de deux with Johnson reveals talents as a political operator that were every bit as spectacular as his soaring oratory. ‘Selma’ movie review: Humanizing Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Two familiar names in entertainment that are teaming up for another pas de deux may not be Astaire and Rogers, but they are giving each other something each wants. Disney Pairs Up With Turner to Promote Shows and a Ride 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Their warmups, stretches and practice bouts — each an improvised but highly structured pas de deux — project equal parts affection and brute, thinly veiled aggression and resentment. ‘Foxcatcher’ movie review: Ensemble cast shines in mesmerizing true story In its breathtaking pas de deux, she appears - long hair flowing, no pointe shoes, in just a light pink leotard - almost to fly off into the air. A beloved American ballerina, ending an era 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z That final stage is where the hard right of the GOP has at last arrived in its tortured pas de deux with science. Republicans and Science: A Relationship Gone Bad 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Currently, Israel and Gaza's militants are locked in a frightening but familiar pas de deux that has played out in similar fashion innumerable times. Gaza flare-up brings all-too-familiar dread to Israelis, Palestinians 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z This biological pas de deux demands a nuanced response from the researcher. A Networked Approach to Fighting the TB Pandemic 2014-03-24T11:30:28Z The image seemed a pas de deux of either poor design and Olympian waste that, for a fleeting moment at least, became a symbol of the entire endeavor. Russians Debate Sticker Price of Sochi Games 2014-01-27T07:45:08Z Ms. Roxas-Dobrish, who left the company 15 years ago, was assigned a particularly difficult portion of the piece, a pas de deux set to the music of the spiritual hymn “Fix Me, Jesus.” With Willing Spirit, a Reprise for Ailey Dancers 2013-12-25T04:16:13Z We've not taught them ballet and asked them to do a pas de deux with us. Dancing dads get into the groove 2013-07-02T01:10:16Z The result of this untoward pas de deux is the system Ms. Rosenthal describes. Today's Economist: Uwe E. Reinhardt: The Culprit Behind High U.S. Health Care Prices 2013-06-07T10:14:50Z The awkward geopolitical pas de deux leaves the victims of drone strikes and their families in the dark. The Debate on Drones: Away from the Politics, the Nameless Dead Remain 2013-02-09T18:05:23Z His swiftness, however, would soon send him flying past his scheme’s scripted pas de deux with a notably tardy counterpart. The Hard Life of an N.F.L. Long Shot 2012-11-21T21:55:22Z |
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