For Mr. Hallberg, the artistic enrichment has had a real effect on his dancing.

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"Kaburias" by Nacho Duato (a Kabuki-influenced work to Leo Brouwer's flamencoesque music) showed Mr. Hallberg bare-chested and aswirl, to little clear effect, in a ruffle-hemmed black skirt that was initially arranged to look like gaucho pants.

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