Atlanta Ballet’s Look/Don’t Touch began with a piece by Mark Morris titled Sandpaper Ballet. It was set to the music of Leroy Anderson and featured a large cast of dancers dressed in full-body costumes by Isaac Mizrahi that were mostly green with a little bit of blue sky with random cloud shapes at the top of the torso. If you were to line everyone up, it would look like a rolling meadow on a nice spring day. If you didn’t line everyone up, it looked like the strangest super-hero gang ever. They were lined up through much of the piece, though.
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