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Dance and dancer moving as one.(Arts)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19981227
Author:Lewis, Jean Battey

"How can one tell the dancer from the dance?" That provocative question, posed in a poem by William Butler Yeats, was the key to some of the finest performances in Washington this year.

As always, the dance itself - its structure and ideas - was central, but vivid, too, was the dancer - the embodiment of the idea, often an active collaborator, and the raw material out of which dance is shaped.

That was supremely evident in the solo "HeartBeat:mb," which Mikhail Baryshnikov danced here last spring at the Warner Theatre. "HeartBeat" was not about Mr. Baryshnikov as ...

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