1. As a longtime corps dancer, she has a special feeling for that important but sometimes underrated job. 2. Corps dancers are no longer ciphers in ordered rows of uniform bodies that move as one. 3. Fayette, also a corps dancer, turns up in just about everything in the repertory, coloring each role with an all-American boyishness. 4. In the Romantic ballet, corps dancers were seen as a collective personality intended to communicate the poetry and atmosphere of a work. 5. Janie Taylor, like Hendrickson a City Ballet corps dancer who is cast in major parts, brings a fugitive, synesthetic perfume to all that she dances. 6. That sense of responsibility is typical of most City Ballet corps dancers. 7. Until recently, Ms. Rosecrans and Griff Braun, a corps dancer at Ballet Theater and treasurer of Independent Artists, were members of the guild board. 8. What makes a good corps dancer at City Ballet? |