Odissi is reminiscent of the images of female dancers that are carved into the friezes of Hindu temples. The upper half of the body articulates precise movements that allow for interpretation, while the lower half maintains any of five statuelike stances. The costumes consist of a headdress, called a tahia; …

Her writing could be practical, as it was in those manuals, or lyrical, as in her book “Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training,” a collection of interviews published in 1991 and revised in 2002. In the introduction, she noted that as a child Graham was influenced …

Pablo Pantoja | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Motorists evade a power line post after Hurricane Maria near Santa Elena in Bayamón, Puerto Rico on September 21, 2017. Recovery will take longer in the remote communities in the center of the island, he said. The area is the hardest hit …

Photo From left, Makhar Vaziev, director of the Bolshoi Ballet, and Vladimir G. Urin, general director of the Bolshoi Theater at a news conference about the “Nureyev” ballet in July. Credit Alexander Nemenov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Bolshoi Theater is going ahead with a ballet based on the life …

A popular post-election investment thesis that many have since abandoned appears to be returning. On Friday, both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Fundstrat issued reports touting value stocks such as financials and a stronger U.S. dollar, an investment strategy known as the reflation trade. It took off after President …

In the absence of compelling figures at the top, the season wound up focusing heavily on Jorge Salcedo, the cartel’s head of security, as he works with the D.E.A. to take down Cali and liberate himself and his family from its bloody sphere of influence. Again, the focus is more …

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at the 2017 Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference Facebook on Friday settled a lawsuit over issuing reclassified shares that some investors argued would decrease the value of their investment. The class action shareholder lawsuit was intended to block …

Source: FactSet To put that in perspective, Apple has lost more than the entire market value of Target, eBay, TJX, Northrop Grumman, or Ford Motor, which all have market values of less than $50 billion. To be sure, $780 billion is still a massively large valuation for investors to put …

Mr. van der Aa’s libretto mingles riffs on incidents from Jonker’s life — recounting an accidental drowning, set in 1976, of a young boy who walks into the sea — and spoken verses from her writings. But his two characters are unnamed archetypal figures, Woman and Man. Photo A scene …

Apple CEO Tim Cook cheers alongside Apple Store employees in Palo Alto, Calif. for the launch of the iPhone 8 on Sept. 22, 2017. “Our users are really smart, so they can decide what they want, and we try to help guide them in our stores and I’m sure the …