Company C's enviable embarrassment of riches

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May. 4, 2009
You don't take on a role created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and expect to instantly leave your own stamp. So it has to be counted a small triumph that Company C Contemporary Ballet's Kevin Delaney tackled the lead in Twyla Tharp's "The Little Ballet" at the...
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