When d'Amboise shifts this
swooning creature from one arm to the other, it seems as if he were shifting the wind.
Holby City (8pm, BBC1) DANNY is still
swooning over Marija.
Adam's ballet opens on the novel image of diminutive Tina LeBlanc, one of the company's signature classical ballerinas,
swooning in a deep sleep and lying across a group of men who crouch in a downstage corner.
Not a
swooning Rhett-has-something-to-tell-Scarlett kiss, but an ordinary see-you-after-I-stop-at-the-dry-cleaner's kiss.
No longer will we hear the immortal line from the
swooning blonde guest: "With thees Ferrero Rocher chocolates you really spoil us."
While the painting would appear to mark Pittman's mastering of Whitmanesque self-ovation, it's also a bit of a letdown, a display of cold genius that elicits awe but not
swooning.
But a high point of the evening is a rare appearance by the choreographer herself, who does a yearning,
swooning dance of the upper body against huge closeup projections of colorful fish.
Hundreds of
swooning supporters squealed with delight as the 21-year- old made it a day of glory for British tennis with a sizzling 7-6 6-4 7-6 Centre Court triumph over Swede Magnus Gustafsson.
But soon it became apparent that Mosina (who at one point in rehearsal was so despondent at fulfilling the requirements of the role that she nearly quit) had mastered an authentically keen edge to the movement, the knee work, the
swooning back-bends, and the telling gestures of the Graham style.
Set to Dvorak and imbued with a distinctly Edwardian Lilac Garden atmosphere, the dance is a nicely contained vignette that suggests complex stories behind the
swooning, swooping embraces and final, harmonious, hand-in-hand reconciliation of the dancers (the supple Maria Mosina and discreetly ardent Dmitri Kouznetsov).
Balanchine wasn't the only choreographer on display n SFB's Edinburgh programs; artistic director Helgi Tomasson gave us the breathlessly romantic vision of his Sonata--a piece of
swooning Rachmaninoff and mittel-European angst of the mock-Tudor school--and Criss-Cross, his perhaps understandably complex and convoluted response to Avison's settings of Scarlatti and Schoenberg's arrangements of Handel.
Also, Morris did not cast himself in the production, which meant that aside from a
swooning solo for Joe Bowie during the Act I plaintive solo of mourning by Orfeo, there was no star dancer.
The second program included a
swooning, evocative Serenade, and the company's sassy, rip-roaring debut in Western Symphony, but the weight of the evening was borne by The Four Temperaments.
The loveliest of the duets came first, with Nicole Cook and Alexandre Iziliaev performing
swooning backbends and beautiful symmetrical battements.