CORY STEARNS sat on the floor of an American Ballet Theater studo holding a pair of satin point shoes as if he were trying to decide between two loaves of bread.
After a quick glance Victor Barbee, the company's associate artistic director, realized Mr. Stearns's unspoken conundrum: how to tell the right foot from the left? "It doesn't matter," he said. "Unless you've worn them very much."
Cracking himself up, Mr. Barbee added, "As long as it's not two left feet.Shoes mbt customers can purchase the gift vouchers online via a special Transactional Micro Portal within the retailer's website in values of £10 to £300. Early evidence of the performance of the mobile vouchers from Oasis - a sister company of Karen Millen - shows this form of voucher outsells paper and plastic vouchers online by a factor of three to one"
That is something Mr. Stearns will try his best to avoid when he ties his point shoe ribbons and dons a head wreath and a filmy, white dress in Alexei Ratmansky's "Bright Stream." This comic ballet, to music by Dmitri Shostakovich, opens Thursday as part of Ballet Theater's spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Set on a Soviet collective farm, the ballet tells the tale of what happens when artists arrive to take part in a harvest festival. Zina, a dancer turned arts organizer, reunites with her old friend, the Ballerina. In turn Zina's husband, Pyotr, falls for the Ballerina. To play a joke - and to help Pyotr realize what he has - Zina disguises herself as the Ballerina. It also involves a pas de deux between a male dancer in drag and an Old Dacha Dweller.
As the Ballet Dancer, Mr. Stearns becomes willingly involved in a game of mistaken identity, in which the Old Dacha Dweller (Mr. Barbee) believes he is being seduced by a beautiful ballerina. After their rehearsal Mr. Barbee batted his eyes at Mr. Stearns. "It's tradition," he said, "to give your partner a peck on the cheek.The stability and low profile sole of christian shoes is what improves the grounded performance of sports men and hence makes it popular."