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interviews
 Artistic Director Roy Kaiser Discusses Pennsylvania
Ballet's New Era
by Lewis Whittington
"I came to classical
dance late in life, as a teenager, after dancers typically come
into it. I was taken by it, the power of it and I couldn't
imagine that I would be doing anything else."
read more...
 Christopher Stowell: Pearl of the Best Price -- OBT's
New Artistic Director Talks About His Plans for Portland's Ballet
Gem
by Dean Speer and Francis
Timlin
"I hope that an OBT 'look' will emerge over time because of
the dancers working with us, as much as from me. I believe that
dancers are refined creatures, like thoroughbreds. I think
that’s part of what makes what we do interesting, and I
want a 'look' for OBT that reflects that quality."
read more...
Igor
Yebra: Handsome Is AND Handsome Does
by Patrizia Vallone
"I really enjoy doing barre exercises, and lessons are not
torture for me, as they are for many of my colleagues. For me, a
day without the barre is a day of life wasted."
read
more...
 Christophe Maraval: Dancing Fluently in Two
Languages
by Dean Speer and Francis
Timlin
"I
like the PNB repertory very much. I know Kent and Francia work
hard to try to please a lot of people! They try to find roles for
everyone that will be suited to each dancer."
read more...
 Cathy Marston
at
The Ballet Association
interviewed by David Bain
She attended a secondary school in Cambridge, where she did lots
of jazz and contemporary dance, already choreographing, although
she did not realise it.
read more...
 Vincent Sekwati
Koko Mantsoe
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe is an
international dance artist who trains in varied forms of dance,
performing in European theatre presentations. He draws from
culturally specific dance aesthetics found in Europe, Asian and
Africa.
read more...
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Image Gallery
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40 Years of
Excellence: Look Back at Pennsylvania Ballet's
Heritage
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Interviews |
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Artistic Director Roy Kaiser Discusses Pennsylvania Ballet's New
Era
by Lewis Whittington
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Reviews |
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Pennsylvania Ballet - 'The
Nutcracker’: Hits and Humbugs
by Lori Ibay
- December 20 & 28, 2003,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet -
'Dracula'
by Lewis
Whittington - October/November 2003,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet -
'Dracula'
by Lori Ibay
- October 2003, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet - 'A Fancy
40th': 'Concerto Barocco,' 'The Four Temperaments,' 'Fancy
Free'
by Lewis
Whittington - October 2003,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet - 'A Fancy
40th': 'Concerto Barocco,' 'The Four Temperaments,' 'Fancy
Free'
by Lori Ibay
- October 2003, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet - 'Firebird,'
'Concerto 488'
by Lewis
Whittington - June 2003,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet -
'Cinderella'
by Lewis
Whittington - May 2003,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet - 'Company B,'
'Quartet for IV,' 'Jaybird Lounge'
by Lewis
Whittington - March 2003,
Philadelphia
Dancers of the Pennsylvania Ballet -
11th Annual 'Shut Up and Dance' Benefit
by Lewis
Whittington - March 2003,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet -
'Carmina Burana' and 'Le Travail'
by Lewis
Whittington - February 2003,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet - Kirk
Peterson's 'Dancing with Monet' & Margo Sappington's 'Rodin,
Mis en Vie'
by S. E.
Arnold - June 2002,
Philadelphia
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in our forums
Letter from the Editors
The start of the year is when we
all recover from too much turkey, Christmas pudding and excess in
general. Much of the the dance world also needs some time for
recuperation after the busy holiday schedules and final
preparations before the Spring tours get underway.
Nevertheless, this February issue
of “Ballet-Dance Magazine” features dance from five
Continents in as diverse a range of styles as you could wish
for.
The Bolshoi were in Paris and our
French readers saw as much as they could of this historic company
performing two ballets new to Parisians. In London, African
modern dance was showcased at The Barbican and Thea Barnes
interviewed Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe, a remarkable artist.
Also in London, Resolution! got underway with slots for 108
fledgling companies and we feature the first part of our
coverage.
Our focus this month is
Pennsylvania Ballet and the image gallery highlights the
classical and neo-classical repertoire of this dynamic company.
The final two stops on our whirlwind world tour are with The
Peking Acrobats, drawing gasps of disbelief from our West Coast
reviewers and the brilliant entertainers of Australia’s
Circus Oz who delighted audiences in New York.
Feature films about the dance world rarely have a director as
accomplished as Robert Altman and two of our critics give their
views on his "The Company". The film has puzzled some and pleased
others, but one thing everyone agrees on - Neve Campbell can
dance.
As always, we love to hear what you think. Please post your
comments in our
Magazine Feedback Discussion Topic in the CriticalDance
forum. And, if you want the magazine delivered right to your
inbox, subscribe!
The
Editors of Ballet-Dance Magazine
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Coming
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· More Ballet
Frankfurt
· More Kirov
Ballet
· More NextWave @
BAM
· Kenneth Kvarnstrom tours the US
· Cynthia Harvey
· More reviews
· More interviews
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features
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features
Really Altogether Different -- How DanceOff! is
changing the face of the nation...well, at least modern
dance
by Jenai Cutcher
But while the Dems have to deal with Kerry, Dean, and the
rest, we’ve got Terry Dean on the scene and he’s
emerging as a very capable leader of a movement’s
movement.
read more...
Ballet 101: Dance for Dummies - The Washington Ballet
by Dani Crawford
I wasn't sure what to expect as I entered the England Studio
where rehearsals are also held. What I found was a sea of
like-minded dance fans not very learned about ballet and dance
but quite eager to become enlightened and to learn how better to
get more out of, and enjoy to an even greater extent, the world
of ballet.
read more...
 Balanchine:
Celebrating a Life in Dance.
Book by Costas.
Book Review by Jeff Kuo
To those of us inconsiderate enough to have been born too
late, the world of "original" Balanchine is unavailable except
through the rare video releases of Dance In America
broadcasts and the photographs of Martha Swope, Costas, Paul
Kolnik, and Max Waldman. But are we of the post-modern generation
as hopeless as all that?
read more...
 40 Years of
Excellence: A Look Back at Pennsylvania Ballet's
Heritage
In January 1962, Lincoln Kirstein and George
Balanchine told the sponsors of Barbara Weisberger's ballet
school, "We're hoping that a real ballet company will be built
here." A year and a half later, one was.
read
more...
Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and
Humanities
by Jeff Kuo
January 8-11, 2004 - Honolulu, Hawaii
... An interesting experiment
in dance history was Sharon Carnicke (Univ. Southern California)
and Dora Krannig’s reconstruction of Nijinsky’s
“L’ Apres Midi D’un Faune” – but
not the notorious Ballet Russes production but Bronislava
Nijinska’s 1922 revival of it with herself as the Faune
.... Can you imagine the Faune danced by a woman?
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Creative Collaborations
by David Watson
November 2003, London
We were told that over two days in London
as part of Dance Umbrella we would participate in a large
workshop, watch a Merce Cunningham performance at Tate Modern and
also take part in technique classes comprising NSCD and LCDS
students.
read more...
The Graham Residency at Laban
by Heidi Baumgartner
November, 2003 -- London
In this Residency I had the pleasure of
experiencing different teachers including Miki Orihara from the
Martha Graham Dance Company and Susan Sentler from Laban.
read more...
Autumn in Tallinn
by Stuart Sweeney
December 2003 -- Tallinn,
Estonia
Priit Raud, the Director of
Tallinn’s Augusti TantsuFestival, told a local magazine,
“Here the opportunity is given to experiment and have some
fun,” which sounds like a good recipe to me.
read more...
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January,
2004 at The Place
 Resolution! and
Reprise at the Place: 2 Views of Jean Abreu, Gildas Diquero, and
Naked Fish Productions
By Stuart Sweeney and Lyndsey Winship
January 2003 and January 2004 -- the
Place, London
A man and woman steal quiet
afternoons together in a rented flat, embracing under a bare
bulb, dancing to a crackly gramophone, brought together not so
much by chemistry as loneliness...
read
more...
 Celia Grannum
'Goodbye Saturn,' Sara Crow & Co 'Something Outside,' Influx
Dance Company 'Malleus Maleficarum'
By Lyndsey Winship
January 27, 2004 -- The Place,
London
In
'Malleus Maleficarum' choreographer Joanne Willmott attempts to
rewrite the legend and salvage the strength and dignity of a
persecuted people...
read
more...
 The Company's
Reasons to be Cheerful,' Lydia Ariken's 'Slip,' Lapsus Corpi's
'Waiting for Audi-Audi'
By Lyndsey Winship
January 22, 2004 -- The Place,
London
Noting that one in four adults are thought to be
suffering from mental health problems at any one time,
choreographer Erica Knighton uses bland fixed grins and
high-energy jazz dance to highlight the manufactured happiness
that is marketed as normality...
read
more...
Emilia Adelöw, Rachel Lopez de la Nieta, Suzannah West:
Glimpsing Dance Possibilities Beyond the
Music
By Lyndsey Winship
January 17, 2004 -- The Place,
London
The
Aerowaves performances at Resolution! are all UK debuts from
international companies. They're that little bit more experienced
than the first time Brits and it shows.
read
more...
Chia Tachibana 'Suketatsuchini' and FLYdance and Zoo Indigo
'Lounge Living'
By Katie Phillips
January 15 and 20, 2004 -- The Place,
London
A sense of nature pervades the piece from the
onset: beginning with the whispers of a seething sea, the dancers
appear like the sounds – a montage of shapes sculpted in
space, their shadows and pointed limbs, reminiscent of oriental
shadow puppets...
read
more...
Device Dance's 'Underneath - Emerging - Revealing,' Charlotte
Eatock's 'Temporary Slaughter,' Trinity Dance Project's
'Archipelago'
By Thea Nerissa Barnes
January 19, 2004 -- The Place,
London
The mood is quiet but strained making the
stillness rather uneasy...
read
more...
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Los Angeles
· Ballet Hispanico - 'NightClub'
Feb 22 -- California Center for the Arts, Escondido. The only
California appearance this season of this Miami based troupe
bringing a full evening work choreographed to music by Piazolla,
Latin music songs by Tito Puente and others, and fusion music by
contemporary DJs.
· Mark Morris Dance Group - 'V,' 'Going Away
Party,' 'All Fours,' and 'A Spell'
Feb 27-28 -- Royce Hall, UCLA. The master choreographer brings
his own troupe and endlessly fascinating, eclectic
repertory.
New York
· Compania Maria Pages - 'Flamenco
Republic'
Feb 24-29 -- Joyce Theater, NYC
This native of Spain blends flamenco and modern dance techniques
with jazz and classical music
· Nederlands Dans
Theater
Mar 9-14 -- BAM, NYC
Two different programs; most works are Jiri Kylian's and most
are US premieres.
San
Francisco Bay Area
· ODC/SF - Dancing
Downtown 2004
Feb 13-29 -- Yerba Buena Center, SF. The spring season of this
powerhouse company includes the world premieres of works by
Brenda Way, KT Nelson, and Kimi Okada.
· Eva Yerbabuena & Ballet
Flamenco
Feb 27 -- Marin Civic Center, Marin
Feb 28, 29 -- Cal Performances, UC Berkeley. The flamenco
artist who has electrified Europe makes her Bay Area
debut.
Philadelphia
· Pennsylvania Ballet - 'The Taming of the
Shrew'
Feb 20-28 -- Academy of Music. Just after Valentine's Day, PAB
brings "the ultimate battle of the sexes" to the stage,
performing John Cranko's full-length ballet, "The Taming of the
Shrew."
· Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre - 'Ravel
Project'
Mar 4-6 -- Zellerbach Theatre. The Philadelphia premiere of
Pascal Rioult's "Ravel Project," inspired by the music of Maruice
Ravel, includes "Bolero," "La Valse," and "Pavane for a Dead
Princess."
Washington, D.C.
· The Hamburg Ballet-
'Nijinsky'
Feb 25-29 -- Kennedy Center. The Hamburg BalletS performs
Artistic Director John Neumeier's ballet based on the life and
legend of the famed Russian dancer.
· Ronald K. Brown/Evidence - 'Come Ye'
Feb 26 -- Center for the Arts,
George Mason University.
Feb 28-29 -- The Dance
Place. Ronald K. Brown/Evidence performs
his latest work, inspired by the music of Nina Simone.
London
· Benois de la Danse
Gala
Feb 23 -- Sadler's Wells Theatre.
A star-studded showcase performance of recent winners of the
Benois de la Danse prize.
· The Royal Ballet - 'Agon,' 'The Prodigal
Son,' 'Symphony in C'
28 Jan-25 Feb -- Royal Opera House. The RB
celebrates Balanchine with a stunning triple bill.
· Russell Maliphant - 'One Part II,' 'Two Times
Three,' 'Choice'
17-18 Feb -- Laban Center. A chance to see
one of leading choreographers working today in an intimate
theatre.
Paris
· Opéra de Paris - 'Giselle'
Feb 2 - Mar 4 -- Palais Garnier. Reprise du classique des
classiques "Giselle" avec en artistes invitées.
· Opéra de Paris - Soirée
Kylian
Feb 17 - Mar 3 -- Palais Garnier.
Création Mondiale de « Il faut qu'une
porte » et reprises de deux ballets: "Stepping Stones" et
"Doux Mensonges."
· Soirée Mats Ek - Ballet de l'Opéra de
Lyon
Feb 3-7 -- Théâtre de la Ville.
Tournée française du ballet de Lyon avec deux
chorégraphies de Mats Ek, "Solo for two et Fluke."
Aulnay sous bois, France
· Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse -
'Coppélia'
Feb 29 -- Espace Jacques Prévert
Tournée de la troupe toulousaine, dirigée avec brio par
Nanette Glushak.
Tallinn, Estonia
· Estonian National Ballet -
'Giselle'
18 Feb. With guest artists Molly Smolen and Tiit Helimets from
Birmingham Royal Ballet
· Estonian National Ballet - 'Sleeping
Beauty'
14 Feb. With guest artists Molly Smolen and Tiit Helimets from
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Düsseldorf
· Tanzplattform Deutschland 2004
Feb 4-8 --Tanzhaus NRW and other venues. German contemporary
dance highlighted in the biannual dance platform
Mannheim
· Kevin O'Day -
'Topographicallayers'
25 Nov -- Nationaltheater. An elegantly modern, evening-length
new ballet work by Mannheim's successful ballet director Kevin
O'Day.
Rome
· Compañia Tango X 2 - 'Tangos, una
leggenda'
Feb 3 - 22 -- Teatro Olimpico.
Miguel Angel Zotto is touring Europe with his
latest successful show.
· Conference by Laban School of
London
Feb 6 -- Teatro Ateneo, La Sapienza
University.
· Conference by Carolyn Carlson
Feb 14 --. La Sapienza University.
Two more conferences about dance-theatre at La
Sapienza University, open to everybody.
· Rome Opera Ballet - 'Swan
Lake'
Feb 22 - 28 --Teatro Costanzi.
Galina Samsova's production of Petipa/ Ivanov
masterpiece is back again for four extra performances.
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Opera
National de Paris - 'Ivan le Terrible'
par Catherine Schemm
6 janvier 2004 -- Opéra Bastille
La relève est presque assurée ! L'Opéra a décidé comme l'année
dernière de faire un parallèle entre le spectacle de
fin d'année et la troupe invitée.
read
more...
Opera
National de Paris - 'Ivan le Terrible'
par Valérie Beck
3 janvier 2004 -- Opéra Bastille
Ce fut un grand moment ! Après toutes les
critiques que j'avais lues, j'étais extrêmement
impatiente de découvrir à mon tour ce curieux ballet.
Je peux simplement dire qu'il m'a fait une très forte
impression, et ce, grâce à l'interprétation
magistrale de José Martinez J'ai eu les larmes aux yeux plus
d'une fois. Il était totalement investi par Ivan
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more...
Ballet de l'Opéra d'Avignon
- 'Cassandra'
par Haruyo Yokota
29 Novembre 2003
Le ballet, chorégraphié par Luciano
Cannito, relate l'histoire de Cassandra, d'après le roman de
Christa Wolf. Miteki Kudo interprétait le rôle titre
qu'elle avait déjà dansé à Avignon il y a 6
mois. Après s'être blessée, la danseuse
n'était pas revenue sur scène depuis mars dernier. Ce
fut donc un réel bonheur de goûter à son approche
du personnage
read
more...
Presqu'iIles de danse
Michèle Anne De Mey, Jo
Fabian, Sasha Waltz
par Anne-Marie Baptista
17 janvier 2004 -- Noisiel – Ferme
du Buisson
Oui, vraiment, de qui se moque-t-on ?! A
l'heure où la culture et la création sont en danger en
France, je ne peux que m’offusquer devant la programmation
donnée à voir cette année dans le cadre des
"Presqu'îles de danse".
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reviews
 Pacific Northwest Ballet's Balanchine Centenary Program:
'The Coupé is on Count Six'
by Dean
Speer
Ferbruary, 2004
I'd have to say the
Balanchine Centenary program's success is as much a tribute to
the dancers and the PNB production team as it is to Mr.
Balanchine.
read
more...
American
Ballet Theatre - 'Raymonda,' 'Without Words,' 'Within You Without
You': Beauty and Boredom at the Kennedy
Center
By
Carol Herron
February 5, 2004 -- Kennedy
Center, Washington, D.C.
...
The bright spot was Xiomara Reyes, she sparkled and danced as if
she were in the most glorious ballet. Her arms were lovely, and
in her solos, her lines were very clean. Ethan Stiefel, on the
other hand, looked like he was counting the whole time ...
read
more...
 American Ballet
Theatre - 'Raymonda,' 'Without Words,' 'Within You Without You':
Mixed Repertory, Mixed Accomplishments
By Jeff Kuo
February 4, 2004 -- Kennedy
Center, Washington, D.C.
In a
curious quirk of thankless programming, the work that should be
the show stopper, “Raymonda” divertissements, began
the evening; and the lightweight fillip, the George Harrison
medley, “Within You Without You” ended it...
read
more...
 Robert Altman's 'The Company': Altman's take on the
Joffrey is artsy, not artistic
by Mary Ellen
Hunt
January, 2004
Ballet aficionados
have waited since 1948’s “The Red Shoes” for a
real ballet movie to be made: one that captures the beauty and
struggle of the quirky, talented, intelligent people who populate
this art form.
read
more...
Robert
Altman's 'The Company': Fleeting Events in a Dancer's
World
by Leland
Windreich
January, 2004
The fact that the
Joffrey Ballet has built its reputation over the years through
its reverence for great ballets of the past and has dedicated its
resources to restoring them accurately was not a concern for
Altman or actress/producer Neve Campbell, who had other
objectives in mind.
read
more...
 San Francisco Ballet - Opening Gala 2004: Champagne
wishes
by Mary Ellen
Hunt
January 28, 2004 -- War Memorial Opera House, San
Francisco
It was all, in the end,
exactly like a glass of champagne. The bubbly atmosphere gave us
a few hours of giddiness, destined to fade soon.
read
more...
The Washington Ballet: On Their Way Up
By Dani Crawford
January 24, 2004 -- The Kennedy
Center, WashingtonDC
I am liking The Washington Ballet
more and more. Their latest production offers something edgy,
something soft and something just plain fun...
read
more...
 Ballets
Trockadero Makes Its Honolulu Debut
By Carol Egan
January 23, 2004 -- Hawaii Theatre,
Honolulu
Timing is
everything, and these boys have it down to a fine
art.
read
more...
 Peking
Acrobats: The Body as Theater
By Jeff Kuo
January 24, 2004 -- Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long
Beach, CA
One must be in a really bad mood not to at least
smile a little at the sight of tables being foot juggled between
three girls in pink pajamas. In their aesthetic, the human body
is itself a kind of theater...
read
more...
 Peking Acrobats:
Defying Physics
By Toba Singer
January 17, 2004 -- Marin Civic
Center, San Rafael, CA
Unlike other circuses that aim to bewitch their
audiences with the ubiquitously occult “magical,”
this troupe presents the very best kind of conscious tribute to
the wonders of the noumenal world and its ineluctable laws of
physics...
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more...
'Moving Africa': Modern Africa Moves at the
BarbicanTheatre
By Thea Nerissa Barnes
January 2004 -- Barbican Theatre, London
...Previous experiences or preconceived notions
of what dance from Africa is thought to be disperse before these
eloquent dance expressions that are not theatricalised
presentations of culturally specific, scared or secular rituals,
or renditions of the lived experience of the noble savage...
read
more...
 Dance Theatre
of Harlem - 'Serenade,' 'St. Louis Woman: A Blues
Ballet'
by Andre
Yew
January 4, 2004 -- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,
Los Angeles
High
expectations are rarely fulfilled and often lead to
disappointment, but those very few, rare times that they are
actually met makes all previous disappointment worth it, and
"Serenade" exceeded my expectations...
read more...
Wim Vandekeybus: The PT Anderson of
Dance?
by
Lyndsey Winship
February 8, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells,
London
In Blush 's
exploration of all things to do with love, there are no hearts
and flowers. It's the darker, less palatable side of this
four-letter word that demands all the attention.
read more...
Paris Opera Ballet - 'Ivan the Terrible': Taking on the
Most Russian Ballet in Existence
by
Cassandra
January 2004 -- Opera Bastille,
Paris
The
first thing I must say about the Paris Opera Ballet dancing
“Ivan the Terrible” is that probably no other company
outside of Russia has either the resources or the ability to
perform this work adequately ...
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more...
Savion Glover - 'Improvography': Finding
Another Voice
by Emily
Klemmer
December, 2003 -- Joyce Theater, New
York
Savion
Glover takes the stage at the Joyce Theater in New York City
joyously singing “The Way You Look Tonight."
read more...
Circus Oz: A Horse of A Different
Color
by Emily
Klemmer
December 21, 2003 -- New Victory Theater,
NY
...a
human who walks on ceilings, an indecent robot-dog named Eric
that orders clowns to sit and roll over, and a strong woman who
spins inside a giant “German Wheel...
read more...
Carla Fracci and Dancers of the Rome Opera Theater
Ballet: 'Girotondo Romano'
by
Patrizia Vallone
December 20, 2003 -- Teatro Nazionale ,
Rome
A ballet made up almost
exclusively of pas de deux is certainly very risky; monotony is
always lurking around the corner.
read more...
Tiffany Mills Company - 'Elegy': Mystery
Suspended
by
Colleen Leonardi
December 6, 2003 -- HERE Arts Center,
NY
Dance, video, music, and
aerial work harmonized in a world where death, mystery, flowers,
and possession dwelled in a creepy cohabitation.
read more...
Paris
Opera Ballet - Kelemnis, Brown, Preljocaj,
Balanchine
by Cassandra
December 2003 -- Opera Garnier, Paris
Kelemenis / Brown / Preljocaj / Balanchine" was
the name of the programme presented at the Opera Garnier last
month with the choreographers names given as the pulling power
rather than the actual titles of the ballets.
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more...
DV8
- 'The Cost of Living': Images from Life
by Lyndsey Winship
November 2003 -- Brighton Dome
What is dance to us? That’s the kind of question DV8 asks
in this piece which is all about image and perfection, worth and
self-worth, celebrity and conformity and other such contemporary
queries...
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more...
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Tournée du Bolchoï à Paris
Opéra National de Paris – Palais
Garnier
Par Catherine Schemm
Absent de la scène parisienne depuis
sa dernière tournée en 1992, la troupe moscovite nous
revient avec trois programmes qui nous permet de voir
l’étendue de leur répertoire, que ce soit le plus
pur académisme avec "le Lac des Cygnes", la reconstitution
historique avec "la Fille du Pharaon"... et une nouvelle
présentation de "Clair ruisseau" dans une chorégraphie
du nouveau directeur du Bolchoï à savoir Alexei
Ramantski.
read more...
'La Fille du Pharaon'
par Catherine Schemm, 15 janvier
2004
La Fille du Pharaon est un ballet de Marius
Petipa inspiré de manière très lointaine du "Roman
de la Momie" de Théophile Gautier. Celui-ci avait
inspiré naturellement Giselle ! Ici l'argument est simple,
plongé par une drogue dans l'inconscient un jeune anglais se
retrouve transporté dans l'Egypte pharaonique.
read
more...
par Caroline Chouard, 18 janvier
2004
Quel voyage nous offre le Bolchoï en deux
heures plus qu’intenses !
read more...
par Jean-Luc Donay, 17 janvier 2004
Avant d’aller voir ce ballet tombé dans
l’oubli depuis 1928, je me suis dit qu’il fallait que
j’essaie de me remettre dans le contexte de lEvidemment,
cela n’a pas été chose facile, mais des lectures
ici et là m’ont beaucoup aidé.a création
initiale de ce ballet.
read more...
par Catherine Schemm, 16
janvier 2004
Si le ballet est en lui-même toujours
aussi agréable à voir, la seconde distribution y fut
néanmoins moins à l'aise.
read more...
by
Katherine Kanter, January 15-18, 2004
Beg, borrow or steal a ticket,
because the thing is a SCREAM. In Lacotte's piece, everything is
a mad, cracking mad, sort of opium dream. It is neither profound,
nor moving, nor does it remain with one in one’s thoughts.
But it is damn good fun...
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more...
'Le Lac des
Cygnes'
par Caroline
Chouard, 10 janvier 2004
Je ne sais pas si mes impressions s’en sont
ressenties mais je ne crois pas que j’aurai plus aimé
la version du Lac de Grigorovitch du parterre...
read more...
par Jean-Luc Donay,
9 janvier 2004
Galina Stépanienko nous propose une vision d'Odette
beaucoup plus réservée que celle de Zakharova que j'ai
vue avant-hier soir.
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par Dominique
Adrian, 8 janvier 2004
J'ai pour ma part passé plutôt une bonne
soirée, même si ma faible compétence (c'est un
euphémisme) dans le domaine classique...
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par Jean-Luc
Donay, 7 janvier 2004
Ballet dans la plus pure tradition classique russe.
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'Le Clair
Ruisseau'
par Jean-Luc Donay, 24 janvier 2004
Les protagonistes de cette distribution
jouent sur un registre un peu différent par rapport à
l'autre distribution, même si les intentions demeurent
identiques.
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par Jacques
Esmieu-Vassevière, 23 janvier 2004
Non pas que j'avais quelque appréhension,
mais la lecture du programme m'avait quelque peu
inquiété. cette oeuvre interdite par les sbires de
Staline et reprise en 2003 avait de quoi surprendre.
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par Catherine Schemm, 21 janvier
2004
Pour son troisième programme, le
Bolchoï avait décidé de présenter une de ses
dernières créations, création pas tout à fait
car il s'agit en réalité d'une nouvelle production d'un
ballet de Chostakovitch intitulé le Clair Ruisseau.
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