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...fairness, there were one or two enchanting moments. The second act consisted mainly of a lengthy dream-sequence where the Princess Aurora and her attendant nymphs danced before the bedazzled Prince. Here the ensemble choreography abandoned the conventional interlocking straight lines, and worked a tapestry of fluid configurations. Dancers bordered the stage in an open rectangle, clustered in a small circle, dipped into a deepening zigzag, or fell to the floor in a smooth oval, their long gowns floating out around them like water lily-pads. When the curtain fell, the patterns lingered in the mind like a figure-skater...
That is the effect that solo dancing should have. When it worked in this performance, it was usually because Elaine Bauer danced Princess Aurora (she alternated in the title role with Laura Young and Durine Alinova). Elegant, long-limbed and lean as a grasshopper, Bauer is easily the finest ballerina Boston's got. She is not a great dancer: the flow of near-perfect form is missing, and sometimes she moves with an awkward detachment from her body, hands and feet stiff as saucers. But unlike Laura Young, for example (who danced a typically colorless Princess Florise), Bauer focuses...
Braden's notion of the miserable, duty-whipped jogger is hard to support by talking to the runners themselves. In farm country near Aurora, Ill., a couple of weeks ago, 17 souls who could have been sitting in front of the tube with six-packs smeared Vaseline on their feet, to ward off blisters, and loped off for a 50-mile foot race. The temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water...
Richard Guse, a 42-year-old Mayville, Wis., businessman, finished the Aurora race in a little over seven hours, coming in third. He wore a red, white and blue bathing suit, down the front of which he poured ice cubes periodically. He said he runs a marathon each month. He started running a number of years ago when he was plagued by insomnia and drowsy spells. The exercise pulled him out of his physical slump. "I owe my whole life to it," he says now. Like Meza (and enough other middle-aged runners to suggest a personality pattern), Guse says...
...many of us does total liberty mean butchering our fellow man? Henry J. Rannin Jr. Aurora...