On Broadway: throwing his weight around: former Paul Taylor dancer Andrew Asnes tries out gymnastics in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers.(Interview)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Gold, Sylviane | Copyright information

He's danced in Aureole, Esplanade, and Arden Court. Between 1989 and 2000, Paul Taylor made more than a dozen roles on him. He's performed his own choreography at the Guggenheim Museum. So what is Andrew Asnes doing in a baggy, yellow tracksuit, surrounded by seven other guys in baggy yellow tracksuits, performing drill-team gymnastics? Asnes' answer is simple: "I'm on Broadway in a Tom Stoppard play. That's protocol."

Well, yeah, it is protocol. It isn't often that a wo...