Mr. Watkins said that "some of the harmonies and the wildness of the rhythms" in "Tanec" have elements of a dance of death.

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Indeed the themes and elements of this narrative dance are unusual for Ms. Tharp.

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After hours of this dance with the elements, we repaired to the ivied big house which was the former holiday pad of the Marquis of Sligo, Baron of Mont Eagle and Earl of Altamont.

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