Part 2 is Points in Space as performed by The Merce Cunningham Dance Company. N conversations with 4 ballerinas and excerpts of romantic ballets danced by each. Bolshoi Ballet Company performs the ballet choreogrraphed by Mikhail Fokine to Chopin's music. The perfection of ballet in the court of Louis XIV, the crisp details of a formal evening at Versailles were controlled in subtle ways even today's polititians would envy. From the samba in Rio to the Lindy hop in Harlem, cultural collisions have shaped the popular dances of the Americas.
Modern dance is more, it's everything that came before, plus.
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