<B>What a Daughter Can Teach<BR>The couple in Blue Palm see their dance-text work and private lives as one. Thus a child greatly affects their art.</B><P> <P><font size=1>Jackie Planeix<BR>and Tom Crocker of Blue Palm.<BR>Photo by DIDIER PALLAGES</font><P>By LYNNE HEFFLEY<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Jackie Planeix and Tom Crocker have the well-defined, lithe lines you'd expect of dancers. Petite Planeix, with eyebrows like two black slashes over dark brown eyes, radiates a gamine delicacy; blue-eyed Crocker is a muscular presence with close-cropped hair and a determined jaw.<BR> Together, they are Blue Palm, the French American, husband-and-wife performance duo. They're known in L.A. and in Europe for eclectic, sensual, slyly observational, adult dance-text satires and balletic romps. But in 1993, they became parents, and parenthood, they say, has not only been part of the evolution of their personal lives, it has also been a profound part of the evolution of their art. In fact, Planeix and Crocker don't separate the two.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><A HREF="http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Theater-X!ArticleDetail-42085,00.html" TARGET=_blank><B>MORE...</B></A>