单选题
Itzik Galili really is an artist of the floating world.
Born in Israel in 1961, he moved to Amsterdam when he was 30 and is shaping up
as one of Europe's most idiosyncratic choreographers. Mr. Galili holds dual
Israeli and Dutch citizenship. He has three children in Israel and visits them
every ten days. In addition to his native Hebrew, he also speaks good English
and Dutch. Mr. Galili is highly regarded in the Netherlands.
Marking the tenth anniversary of the founding of his company, Galili Dance, a
new show, "Heads or Tales", has been receiving enthusiastic reviews as it tours
the country. Fiercely contemporary, "Heads or Tales" is full of gorgeous
imagery, compelling ensemble work and arresting solos. One thing it is not,
though, is balletic. Scenes include a naked man being showered with bits of
paper, men doing the pogo, and a man and woman engaged in tentative ballet while
conducting a dialogue about genocide. Mr. Galili's artistic
style is confrontational: athletic, unsentimental and often witty. He claims not
to be specifically political, believing that politics and choreography rarely
sit well together. But in "For Heaven's Sake", a powerful piece that he first
staged in 2001 and which he revised last year, the images of
occupation—conjuring up the Israelis in Palestine, perhaps, or the Americans in
Iraq—could not be mistaken for anything else. Ten years ago,
Mr. Galili moved from Amsterdam to the northern town of Groningen. A friend had
called, urging him to apply for a position there as director of dance. Mr.
Galili got the job. Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university, but
its claims to fame do not extend too much beyond the industrial processing of
sugar-beet and a glorious 15th-eentury tower. "Who would want to go to
Groningen?" asks Mr. Galili with an ironic smile. Yet in many
respects it was a shrewd move. For such a small country, the Netherlands has an
unusual quantity of world-class dance troupes, including the Dutch National
Ballet, based in Amsterdam, and the more experimental Netherlands Dance Theatre
(NDT) in The Hague. Both fill theatres across the globe. In
Groningen, though, Mr. Galili is dance's top dog. That allows him to work with a
freedom and intensity that he might not be permitted were he competing with a
bigger troupe in a major urban centre. One measure of Galili Dance's status is
the number of young hopefuls who want to join. The full tally of its performing
employees amounts to only ten people. Yet once or, at most, twice a year, Mr.
Galili sees between 350 and 500 applicants over three days each time.
Small, for Mr. Galili, is clearly beautiful. His thinking about dance is
correspondingly original. Talent, even if discernible from an early stage,
develops only slowly. Almost everything begins in improvisation, and his aim is
never merely to make an audience laugh or cry. There must always be a journey
"within", he says. Mr. Galili knew nothing about dance until he
was in his early 20s. He had had a disrupted childhood, with his parents
divorcing and his mother suffering a breakdown. He and two other siblings were
fostered by three different families, and Mr. Galili recalls with evident pain
that he grew up in 17 different places between the ages of five and 18. After
doing his military service in Israel in the early 1980s, he caught the dance bug
when watching five men dancing to a Greek folk tune; he had always loved Greek
music.
单选题
"Choreographers" in the first paragraph can be best replaced by ______.
A.language teachers
B.movie directors
C.photographers
D.directors of dance
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 语义理解题。浏览选项可知choreographers是表示职业的词，由第二、第三段对其作品的描述可以推测他是个舞蹈编导，由第四段第二句，他的朋友催他去担任director of dance，进一步证实了猜测，可见D正确。
单选题
Galili's dances can be described as all of the following EXCEPT ______.