He was able to coach their son's soccer team, and he never missed a ballet recital.
This entire episode is like an economic theater, a ballet, with a very delicate balance.
I've also come to realize that if a ballet stays in the repertory, it changes so much.
He helped create and produce a ballet that was a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic.
He floats off the trampoline like a gazelle, twisting in the air with the fluidity of a ballet dancer.
"My mother was a ballet legend, who was proud of her Osage heritage, " her daughter, Elise Paschen, said in a statement.
Bell became an international success with his screen debut as a ballet dancing youngster in Daldry's Billy Elliot three years ago.
Other characters include Holly, a ballet dancer who works as a stripper and pole-dancer at a local club and Juliette, a pharmacy assistant who dreams of going to Africa to help starving children.
Mr. Graham shows me a ballet step with fins, the legs moving outward in opposite directions, the feet flat, slowing the ascending diver, turning the body from side to side to see the reef.
Originally conceived by composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal as a blend of genres, the original, first staged in 1912, began with a ballet-spiced play, followed by a different version of the one-act opera.
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Bolshoi dancers have been known to place crushed glass inside each other's ballet shoes, or set an alarm clock to go off during a tour de force (a feat of technical skill during a ballet performance).
Quality varies according to price, but most of these performances offer a decent night out, featuring a mixed programme that often includes the works of Johann Strauss and Mozart, and features an orchestra, soprano, baritone and a ballet couple.
In between, we see him studying horses in motion, recording the limp paws and coppery fur of a dead fox, and capturing the slump of a tired violinist accompanying a ballet class, all in preparation for paintings.
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It is not normal - not even for the vast majority of other successful musicians - to get asked to write a ballet for one of the world's most revered dance companies, having never written one before, or shown any real interest in the art form.
One new company, CitiSoles, started by two New York University students, Susie Levitt and Katie Shea, offers a new twist: A ballet flat with a rubber sole that splits in the center, making it easier to fold and tuck into a zippered pouch, which also unfurls into a tote for carrying high heels home at night.
When Mr. Filin invited Mr. Hallberg to the Bolshoi, it was a historic moment for Russian ballet and a huge success for American ballet.
In a hypnotic sequence, shot in a cornfield as if through a yellow haze, the lovers embark on a miniature ballet of courtship, building a palpable erotic tension through an exchange of shy glances and the most chaste of touches.
But here, as with a segment called "Riffs on Agon" (which took inspirations of movement and music from Igor Stravinsky's "Agon, " a 1957 ballet by George Balanchine) and with the world premiere of "Orbit" (a composition for solo cello by Philip Glass), Lil Buck looked somewhat constrained held back by efforts based more on set choreography than improvisation.
At the Pacific Northwest Ballet, a Seattle company that says it has lost a fifth of its government funds in recent years, the marketing team is pushing harder to sell the ballet as a "date night" activity, including charging extra for access to a separate lounge with cocktails at intermission.
Lin's awakening to dance came with the 1948 classic The Red Shoes - the tale of an aspiring dancer's struggle to join a famous ballet company.
The toughest test of the SpaceX capsule is set to occur Friday, when the cargo capsule is expected to steadily move closer to the station in a weightless ballet with the larger craft.
"She'd compare a step to a flower, or take off her necklace and say how all the beads have to be perfectly put together to form the whole (dance) variation, " said Lola Cooper, a Carolina Ballet dancer who studied with Kostritzky at the School of American Ballet.
While still at school, she persuaded a Los Angeles ballet company to give her a job as a dress designer.
For the first time in its 34-year history, the Hong Kong Ballet is performing a Chinese-themed ballet.
She would grow a beautiful garden on the ashes of the factory, teach cardio ballet in more and more places, build a modest cardio-ballet empire.
Nor does it have to be showy: I once saw a New York City Ballet audience burst into applause when a ballerina lifted her leg into a flawless arabesque.
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This may be a macho country but in Cuba ballet has such a high profile that there is no stigma attached to boys who want to become dancers.
The venture represents a gamble for the ballet company, which is operating at a deficit with a plan to balance its budget by 2015.
For Peter, who has had a fondness for ballet for more than 40 years, the classes certainly seem to be having positive effects.
But there was always something a bit fey about Mr Knievel, even in the 1970s, when long hair and tight crotches made every young man look like a member of a corps de ballet.
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