Yet for all its pure-movement veneer, the ballet offers a strong emotional resonance in the central duet.

Hands are splayed, and exciting leaps by the men lead up to an enigmatic image that echoes one from the central duet.

Mr. Wilson reduces the erotic episode to two central duets.

The dance's playful, sensuous central duet is not to be missed.

Even the central duet, a masterpiece, is based upon this ability for movement to change in front of our eyes.

It may be plotless - yet, as this cast emphasized, its two central duets conjure up quite different emotional states.

The central duet in "Bugaku" is the most overt in this respect.

Now its playfulness seems deepened by the way its central duet is danced.

Too often, the company's principals have tended to render the two central duets as highly personalized drama.

In a bow to the putative theme about societies dominated by men, there is a central duet.