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Wine and Vulgarity

Wine and Vulgarity

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Fredric Koeppel
May 27, 2012
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In the New York Times recently, dance critic Gia Kourlas wrote of a young ballet dancer that "[her] lifts were daring, twisty things without

being crass." In what manner could a dancer's movements be crass, since ballet we think of as the epitome of elegance and grace? By being overstated or emphatic or by being extended beyond the logical necessity of t…

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