We are at least spared the sight of these noise producers cavorting about the stage in a sort of corybantic frenzy. |
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In both fables of possession we see how ritual motion and corybantic chanting bring about the psychological birth of the aliens. |
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Where his dexterous playing and effortless meter manipulation often buoyed the band's corybantic compositions, here, he's sadly mollified. |
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Aristotle calls the flute orgiastic because it contributes to religious insanity but often refers to drums in bacchic, corybantic or similar ecstatic worship. |
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Wheeldon premiered a new Firebird at Boston in October, and he created Corybantic Ecstasies for the company last season. |
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And at a recent revival of his 1999 work Corybantic Ecstasies at the Boston Ballet, he saw plenty of choreography he would have chucked in retrospect. |
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