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Dancing at the Met.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dancing at the Met.(Metropolitan Opera)

Article Excerpt
Teaching a stilt-walker how to pirouette on pointe and gracefully undulate his arms may not be part of Diana Levy's job description as Dance Director of the Metropolitan Opera. But there she was, last fall, in a sub-basement studio at the Met readying him to take on the role of a wing-flapping, 12-foot flamingo in Julie Taymor's whimsical staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

During another rehearsal, Levy fine-tuned the delicate movements of Puccini's Turandot, set in ancient China. The period style demands that the torso remain still while the eyes and the hands tell the story. In the first rehearsal of Tan Dun's production of The First Emperor, which has its world premiere this season,...

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