Set to excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Solo Suites for Cello, " the dance features what Mr. Taylor sometimes calls his "scribbles" of movement, as the cast's five women and three men ride wildly or serenely into, over and through Bach's sonorous accompaniment.

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Former company member Vicky Shick made easy but indelible work of the solo and all the gray-clad men and women of the group dance burned their concentrated, calibrated moves and formally patterned choreography into one's memory.

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Korean American visual artist Nam June Paik will make his Scottish debut, 50 years after his first solo exhibition, and Scottish Ballet will return to the Festival Theatre with a four-day dance festival.

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The small cast showed excellent chemistry in a variety of music and dance performances throughout the show, with percussion, sound effects and even a saxophone solo by the versatile Brian Hargreaves adding to his acting workload.

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She tracks other details, like calculating when performers can catch their breath, since actors can't dance at full tilt at the same time they're supposed to belt out a solo.

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" Ms. Brown formed her Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970, the same year she created the straightforward but eerie event for a solo male dancer, matter-of-factly called "Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.

WSJ: A Matter of Personality | Trisha Brown | Karole Armitage | By Robert Greskovic

After scoring, Wambach and her teammates collected hands, and, in a pre-choreographed routine, did a long, break-dance style wave motion that gestured down to the far end of field, where goalie Hope Solo and defender Christie Rampone dropped to the ground and performed an undulating maneuver known to anyone who has ever consumed more than three drinks at a wedding: The Worm.

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He performed a haunting solo dance on his arms before taking off and taking part in an "aerial ballet" high above the stadium.

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