Gestures of Grief Friday, October 3, 2003 By Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal As it happens, I flew down to North Carolina in between "Omnium Gatherum" and "Recent Tragic Events," where I saw Carolina Ballet dance the premiere of Lynn Taylor-Corbett's "Lost and Found," a remarkably poetic dance about - you guessed it - 9/11. Ms. Taylor-Corbett has taken some of the postures and gestures of grief she saw in New York City two years ago and woven them into an abstract ballet (set to Schumann's "Symphonic Etudes") that scrupulously shuns melodrama and portentousness and is all the more poignant for it. I mention "Lost and Found" because it reminded me of a remark made by the great dance critic Edwin Denby: "Ballet is the one form of theatre where nobody speaks a foolish word all evening - nobody on the stage at least. That's why it becomes so popular in any civilized country during a war." Need I say more?