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On Broadway: throwing his weight around: former Paul Taylor dancer Andrew Asnes tries out gymnastics in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04 		Format: Online - approximately 626 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: On Broadway: throwing his weight around: former Paul Taylor dancer Andrew Asnes tries out gymnastics in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers.(Interview)

Article Excerpt
He's danced in Aureole, Esplanade, and Arden Court. Between 1989 and 2000, Paul Taylor made more than a dozen roles on him. He's performed his own choreography at the Guggenheim Museum. So what is Andrew Asnes doing in a baggy, yellow tracksuit, surrounded by seven other guys in baggy yellow tracksuits, performing drill-team gymnastics? Asnes' answer is simple: "I'm on Broadway in a Tom Stoppard play. That's protocol."

Well, yeah, it is protocol. It isn't often that a world-class playwright writes "a not especially talented troupe of gymnasts" into an absurdist inquiry into...

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