Word: laing
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...they're usually good stories. They're just [adopts Stallone voice] "good action flicks." Some of the best times we've had are because of being in a band. Once, we went to Iceland and we got to go to these volcanic hot springs. We've also been to LA. You know, the traveling stuff is where most of the fun is. It's not like we play Jenga or Scrabble...
Boston Ballet took on years of history and tradition with the recent opening of the exotic La Bayadere, a ballet known for the opulence of its costumes and sets as well as the extreme challenges it presents to an ensemble as a whole. Set to the music of Ludwig Minkus, the 123-year-old ballet epic premiered in Boston for the first time last week in the ornate Wang Theater. With choreography by artistic director Anna-Marie Holmes after Marius Petipa's original, this was an ambitious enterprise in innovation and the preservation of tradition...
...India, La Bayadere depicts the love story between Solor, a renowned warrior, and Nikya, a temple dancer. This performance features the petite Larissa Ponomarenko as Nikya, with Yury Yanowsky in the role of Solor. Although the couple is well-matched, they lack polish in their pas de deux, with shifty landings in their lifts and a lack of sustained movement that sometimes overshadows their individual technical brilliance. The absence of an emotional connection between the couple also seems to underscore the technical faults. Still, Ponomarenko enthuses with her fluid, well-placed positions, displaying long, beautifully shaped arabesque lines that defy...
...Although La Bayadere is faithfully reconstructed in this new rendition, the project seems to have been approahced with almost too much care, as though the choreographers greatly feared deviating too far from tradition. A substantial performance steeped in years of tradition, La Bayadere is nevertheless curiously deficient in the cutting-edge spirit of innovation that distinguishes this century from the last...
...Army might consider giving "regular" troops their own special mark of honor (a la secret decoder rings) rather than stealing one from other divisions. That might provide an incentive for dedication without undermining the traditional excellence and prestige of our elite special forces...