Word: aurora
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...Aurora Rodriguez
...HELIOS, as at Harvard, last week witnessed the most spectacular demonstration of the decade. After five-and-a-half years of inactivity, a flare scorched the solar surface, shorting out the South Atlantic and juicing up the aurora borealis as far south as Cambridge. Fortunately, most of the sun's radiant energy reaches the earth in a form more suitable for earthling endeavor...
...Aurora, Ohio...
...impossible to perform this particular balancing sequence really well, and Bauer went about it with visible tension. She almost grabbed her partners' hands, and the final arabesque expressed not so much a triumphant affirmation as a sigh of relief for everyone in the auditorium. In spite of that, her Aurora in this scene and elsewhere was delicate and endearing, each meticulously careful gesture hinting at the hesitance of the not-quite-grownup child...
...Aurora's is the only solo role that permits any real dramatic subtlety; the other soloists are either stock characters or vehicles of sprightly choreography, with only the vaguest relations to plot. Anamarie Sarazin's Evil Fairy was a gratifyingly serpentine siren, complete with green dragon wings, gaudy sequins and decadent black stockings a la Toulouse-Lautrec; the wedding guests, from Tom Thumb (Tony Catanzaro) to a White Cat (Debra Mili) were equally charming and improbable...