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Drink to me only with thine eyes
- A line from a love poem by the seventeenth-century English poet Ben Jonson. He suggests that lovers find each other's glances so intoxicating that they have no need to drink wine.
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Go tentpole-wide with 鈥淎ll superheroes wear masks,鈥 or hit the prestige note with something like 鈥淒rink to me only with thine eyes.鈥
American Ballet Theatre premiered Morris鈥檚 鈥淒rink to Me Only With Thine Eyes鈥 in 1988, and Taylor created 鈥淐ompany B鈥 in 1991 for the Houston Ballet and his own company.
Then she accompanied Miss Goodacre, who sang 鈥淒rink to Me Only with Thine Eyes鈥 in what I considered to be a completely indifferent voice, all the while emoting heavily in Harry鈥檚 direction.
The luminous Australian dancer Stephanie Williams relishes movement, as she deftly proved in Mark Morris鈥檚 鈥淒rink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.鈥
And then there鈥檚 鈥淒rink to Me Only With Thine Eyes,鈥 a work that shows us 鈥 wonderfully 鈥 a postmodern view of ballet鈥檚 sexism.
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