The rest of us may wonder why the sisters have brought their dance teacher to the ball (perhaps to provide more male solos?)

In 1977, he notably performed "Touch Me", a male solo.

And yet, earlier, he has one of the longest and most difficult male solos in the repertory.

Some of the choreography has been simplified for the male solos.

He gave a poignant account of the male solo - the only introverted sequence in an otherwise extroverted work.

Jock Soto gave a forceful account of the male solos.

The women do better, although Thomas Lund, exceptional in the first male solo, showed how a tradition can be preserved.

He is the most at home in the show-biz flavor of the male solos.

Perhaps that is why he missed the poetry of the male solo, sectioning it off into gestures and steps.

The intricate, subtle demands of the new male solo in the "Jewels" divertissement are not always made apparent.