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interviews
Cultivating a Garden: Reconstructing & Staging Petipa’s "Le Jardin Animé" - An Interview with Doug Fullington and Manard Stewart
by Dean Speer and Francis Timlin
One of our goals is to try not to make the ballet look "old-fashioned." Today's trained dancers move in a contemporary way but completely within the parameters of the notation.
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Swimming Rite - Interview with Shen Wei
by Donald Hutera
Born in China, and with an extensive background
in Chinese Opera, 36 year-old Shen Wei has lived in New York City since
1995. He is a painter and choreographer, as well as a performer in his
own young company, Shen Wei Dance Arts. Umbrella is bringing a contrasting
pair of his works to London.
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more...
Organic Chic - Interview with Yolande Snaith
by Donald Hutera
Yolande Snaith has spent the past two decades cultivating
a multi-layered, collagist aesthetic like nobody else's. "There are choreographers
who work closely with the structure of music, " she says, "but that's
not me. For me choreography is definitely a visual as well as a physical
process."
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Ailey's Legacy Alive at the Academy
by Lewis Whittington, May 2004, Philadelphia
Among the many reasons Philadelphians love Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is that artistic director Judith Jamison grew up here.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - 'Hymn': Why Dance?
by Mary Ellen Hunt, March 2004, Berkeley, California
In 1993, only four years after the passing of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company's founder, artistic director Judith Jamison gathered together her dancers to create a tribute to the man who had so deeply influenced them all.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - 'Revelations,' 'Winter in Lisbon,' 'Treading'
par by Valérie Beck, Juin 2003, Paris
Comment rester de glace devant une représentation de la compagnie d’Alvin Ailey?
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - 'Grace,' 'Shelter,' 'The Winter in Lisbon'
by Maria Roche, December 2002, New York
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has a rich, lustrous tradition dating back to 1958, but on Sunday it chose to show three of its more recent works – it being just 14 years since the oldest was created.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - 'Grace,' 'Shelter,' 'The Winter in Lisbon'
by Kate Snedeker, December 2002, New York
On December 15th, the audience at City Center was treated to a diverse selection from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's unique repertoire.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in London: Where is the company headed?
by Emma Pegler, June 2002, London
The company is without doubt worth seeing. It clearly has a cult status that it deserves...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in London: Not-so-great oldies
by Melanix Nix, June 2002, London
Having waited a year for the rescheduled appearance of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, expectations were sky high.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre - 'Grace,' 'Following the Subtle Current Upstream,' 'Revelations'
by Dina McDermott, February 2001, Seattle
The adoring audience seemed unable to show their adulation enough.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - 'Divining,' 'Pas de Duke,' 'Revelations,' 'Bad Blood'
par Catherine Schemm, Octobre 2001, Paris
Le Nouveau Festival International de Danse de Paris accueille la troupe d'Alvin Ailey pour deux programmes.
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Ballet
de l'Opéra de Paris - 'Don Quichotte': Une magnifique soirée
Par Catherine Schemm
1er juin 2004, Opéra Bastille, Paris
Deuxième artiste invité, l'étoile
cubaine Carlos Acosta se produisait ce soir dans Basilio aux côtés
d'Aurélie Dupont. Le mélange se promettait d'être
explosif, entre la tradition cubaine très axée sur
une technique spectaculaire et la tradition française plus
basée sur le style, et il le fut.
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Ballet
de l'Opéra de Paris - 'Don Quichotte': Roberto Bolle à
l'Opéra
Par Catherine Schemm
28 mai 2004, Opéra Bastille, Paris
Après les prises de rôles multiples
qui se sont succédées et qui ont vu la consécration
de Mathieu Ganio et les succès de Dorothée Gilbert,
Eleonora Abbagnato, Karl Paquette, Emmanuel Thibault et les autres,
voici venue le tour des artistes invités.
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Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal - 'Néfès': Gros succès sans surprise
Par Anne-Marie Baptista
4 juin 2004, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
Première ce soir de «Nefés»,
la création que Pina Bausch présente cette saison
au Théâtre de la Ville avec le Tanztheater Wuppertal
Cette pièce m'apparaît comme un conte que nous narre
Pina Bausch avec beaucoup d'humour, de sensibilité et de
poésie.
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more...
Ballet
de Marseille - Spectacle Balanchine, Forsythe, Saarinen
Par Haruyo Yokota
22 mai 2004, Opéra de Marseille
Après les deux représentations
de Don Quichotte en novembre 2003, le Ballet de Marseille s'installe
de nouveau à l'Opéra de Marseille pour nous présenter
trois programmes, tous différents de par leur style.
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more...
Compagnie
Karas - 'Kazahanas'
Par Haruyo Yokota
29 mai, Lille
14 danseurs, dont deux assistantes du chorégraphe,
se sont ainsi côtoyés pendant quatre semaines. Tous
venaient de différentes compagnies: Blanca Li, W. Forsythe,
J. Kylian, Royal Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, Opéra de Paris.
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Bolchoï
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Bolchoï
- 'Chipollino', spectacle en matinée
Par Jean-Luc Donay
2 juin 2004, Théâtre du Bolchoï, Moscou
Durant le trajet, il m’explique que Chipollino est un ballet conçu
pour les enfants ; aujourd’hui, le spectacle est d’ailleurs prioritairement
réservé pour des enfants vivant à l’orphelinat.
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more...
Ecole
de danse du Bolchoï, spectacle en soirée
Par Jean-Luc Donay
2 juin 2004, Théâtre du Bolchoï, Moscou
Je me réjouis de voir les élèves
de cette prestigieuse école, d'autant que comme certains
d"entre vous, j'ai aussi vu le reportage sur Arte, qui a été
diffusé la veille de mon départ.
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more...
Bolchoï
- 'Giselle': version Youri Grigorovitch
Par Jean-Luc Donay
3 juin 2004, Théâtre du Bolchoï, Moscou
Giselle n'a jamais quitté l'affiche
de ce théâtre jusqu'à nos jours. Depuis 1944
c'est la version de Lavrovsky qui était au répertoire.
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· Universal Ballet in CA
· Royal Ballet's US tour
· Jeff Stanton of PNB
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features
First Anniversary of 'Ballet-Dance Magazine'
by The Editors
July
2004
"The best online dance magazine I have seen" - Frank Anderson, Artistic Director Royal Danish Ballet
It's been work -- we won't deny it, but all of us at Ballet Dance Magazine are so proud of the twelve issues, 600+ articles from 141 contributors and much blood, sweat and a few tears that have made "Ballet-Dance Magazine" ("Monthly," as was) one of the most wide-ranging and in-depth magazines about dance on the Web.
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Recycle/Reuse/Renew:
Arts Critic Octavio Roca dismissed from the Miami Herald
by Mary Ellen Hunt
June 30, 2004, San Francisco
Plagiarism
is perhaps too strong a term for what is more like slipshod journalism,
but Roca’s style of renewable reviewing was surely an open secret
in the Bay Area dance community.
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more...
 Trisha
Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001
Exhibition review by Jeff Kuo
June 11, 2004 -- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington
For the exhibition, the
curators prepared a special, darkened enclosure inside which they projected
a video of 'Opal Loop/Cloud Installation' onto pale, machine generated
fogs.
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more...
 Akademi
and ICA - Symposium: No Man's Land - Exploring South Asianness -
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
May 22, 2004 - Venue ICA, London
Currently there exist an amalgamation
of 'South Asian' classic and folk forms that have been transliterated
or appropriated by other dance forms. These expressions find their inspiration
in cinema, musical shows and MTV. There are also classic and folk forms
fluctuating as much as they are trying to maintain traditional substance.
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more...
Akademi
and ICA - Symposium: What's in a Label?
by Julia Skene-Wenzel
May 22, 2004 - Venue ICA, London
Integration into a global trans-national
structure can only be achieved, when differences are acknowledged and
accepted as assets to a broader cultural structure.
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more...
Regional
Dance America, Pacific Region's Ballet Festival
by Dean Speer
Felesina seems to understand
form, function, and composition. Her white-costumed ballet began with
a simple port de bras motif that built and was used as the catalyst
for the extension of the piece.
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more...
 Mao's
Last Dancer - by Li Cunxin
Book review by Leland Windreich
For Li Cunxin, born
in 1961, the chances of becoming a world acclaimed ballet dancer were
a million to one. Number six in a Chinese family of seven boys, sleeping
head to toe in a peasant commune hovel near the costal city of Quingdao,
Li had neither special talents nor childhood yearnings to be a performer.
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more...
Breakin'
Convention: International Festival of Hip Hop
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
May 15-16, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
Fantastic, awesome, are
some of the superlatives that can be used to describe the breakin' convention
held at Sadler"s Wells 15 and 16 May. Sadler"s front of
house turned into a youth world summit where young folks from about
5 to elders came to watch the breakers, DJ"s, MC"s and stand
in hopefuls and knowledgeable freaks strut, bounce, pontificate, whirl,
fly, spin, snap, and pop.
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more...
Reconstruction:
Le Chant du Rossignol - Film Screening and Reconstruction
by Petra Tschiene
May 14, 2004 -- Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House 2, London
The most fascinating
section of the documentary shows her teaching her role to an awe struck
Royal Ballet School student named Iohna Loots, who is now a First Artist.
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more...
National
Ballet of Canada - Rex Harrington Farewell: Goodbye Rex
by Michael Goldbarth
May 23, 2004 -- Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, Canada
The standing ovation
accorded Rex Harrington was long and loud. The National didn"t
have to buy bouquets; the fans themselves came well prepared for the
occasion.
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A Century of Balanchine
'Chopiniana,' 'Tanz Symphony,' and the Kingdom of the Shades
by Catherine
Pawlick -- June 2, 2004
This was the historical Russia that influenced Balanchine
-- classical, formal, tutu-ed and traditional.
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more...
'Apollo,'
'Prodigal Son' 'Tanz Symphony,' 'Serenade'
by Catherine
Pawlick -- June 3, 2004
The Kirov
dancers manage to portray the dramatic elements well, even when
certain steps evade them.
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more...
'Donizetti
Variations' 'Concerto Barocco,' 'La Sonnabula'
by Catherine
Pawlick -- June 4, 2004
The Perm Ballet was so courtly and
polite as to be unremarkable, and, as several former New York
City Ballet principals noted, the sense of humor that may have
pervaded the piece in New York versions was absent.
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more...
'Jewels'
by Catherine
Pawlick -- June 5, 2004
...performed in a more "Balanchinean" style -- with adequate
abandon and jazz influence where needed.
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more...
Forsythe
Evening: 'STEPTEXT,' 'The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude,' 'In
the Middle, Somewhat Elevated': Neo-classical Made New
by Catherine
Pawlick -- June 6, 2004
The language of Forsythe in this ballet is coherent and
unique, if strange. The dancers communicate to each other through
a series of bent elbow hand gestures (almost like dance sign language),
and an audience member nearby was heard to say aloud 'this
is not a ballet.'
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more...
Gala
Concert - 'Chopiniana' and gala divertissements
by Catherine
Pawlick -- June 12, 2004
But during the Kirov's 'Gala Concert' on June 12, it was
Mikhail Agrest's conducting that took center stage and -- almost
-- stole the show.
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Wheeldon's 'Swan Lake' at Philadelphia's Academy
of Music
Send in the Swans
by Lewis
Whittington
June 4-13, 2004
Choreographer
Christopher Wheeldon got that ballet warhorse "Swan Lake"
galloping, breaking away and in the back stretch, similarly,
choking.
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more...
 Christopher
Wheeldon's World Premiere is a Triumph
by Lori
Ibay
June 4, 2004
Pennsylvania Ballet has not performed
"Swan Lake" for thirteen years, but the company has
never danced a "Swan Lake," or any production for
that matter, quite like this one...
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more...
The Magic Continues at PAB
by Lori
Ibay
June 5, 2004
The theater was packed; the audience
buzzed; the orchestra, conducted by Beatrice Jona Affron, began
Tchaikovsky’s familiar overture; and the stage was set for a
repeat of the company’s opening night triumph...
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more...
 Final
Bows and Fond Farewells
by Lori
Ibay
June 9, 2004
Emotion dripped from Dede Barfield's
fingertips with every deliberate movement, and the essence of
the Swan Queen seemed to emanate directly from her being and
straight to the audience.
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more...
L'apres midi d'un Siegfried
by S. E.
Arnold
June 4-5, 2004
When combined with the ballet studio
set and its giant mirror, the music and Degas references thoroughly
establish the cloistered, self-referential, and sensual world
of Wheeldon's "Swan Lake."
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more...
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American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera Season
 Romeo
& Juliet: Starry Afternoon
by Mary Ellen Hunt
June 30, 2004
How wonderful is it
when you can walk into a Wednesday matinee on a hot sleepy summer
day and be unexpectedly transported by the sheer magic onstage?
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more...
'Romeo
and Juliet': The Unbearable Lightness of Amanda
by Jerry
Hochman
June 30, 2004
'The blonde on the right',
I told my wife. The blonde on the right was Amanda McKerrow.
This was before Moscow, before the Today show (yes, I happened
to see the interview with Jane Pauley), and before ABT. It's
nice to be right.
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more..
 'Coppelia':
Wanted: An Old-Fashioned Star
by
Mary Ellen Hunt
June 26, 2004
Frustratingly, the glamorous,
I-can't-stop-watching-and-wondering-what-they'll-do-next quality
has been slow to develop in the youngest generation of principals
at ABT, a company which in my mind has always been about glamorous
stars.
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more...
 'Don
Quixote'
by
Lori Ibay
June 12, 2004 matinee
More comedy was provided
by another comic duo -- Kitri's father, Lorenzo, played
by Isaac Stappas, and the rich suitor Gamache, played Julio
Bragado-Young, who displayed his mastery of physical comedy.
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more...
'Raymonda'
by
Kate Snedeker
June 2, 2004 matinee
The plentiful dances and
divertissements in both acts provide ample opportunities for
fine dancing, and the company did not disappoint. Zack Brown's
colorful costumes and sets were a highlight of the production
and provided a pleasing background for the solid corps.
read
more...
 'Raymonda'
by
Lori Ibay
June 2, 2004
Condensed into two acts,
"Raymonda" has its own fairytale plot -- the
heroine at her birthday party meets the handsome suitor a.k.a.
"good guy," Jean de Brienne, and the suave, exciting
"bad guy," Abderakhman, a Saracen Knight.
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more...
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editors' picks
Los Angeles
· National
Choreographer's Initiative
July 24, 2004 - Irvine Barclay Theatre,
Irvine, California
Molly Lynch's new choreographer's workshop debuts with premieres by
Peter Pucci, Ann Marie DeAngelo, James Sewell, and Lynne Taylor-Corbett.
· Universal
Ballet - 'Romeo and Juliet'
August 6-8, 2004 - Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, California
The only Southern California performances for Korea's Universal Ballet
performing Oleg Vinogradov's take on the familiar Shakespearean tragedy.
New York
· Ashton
Centennial Celebration
through July 17, 2004, Lincoln Center, New York
The Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet and
K-Ballet all join forces to pay tribute to one of England's most beloved
choreographers.
· Shen
Wei Dance Arts
July 14 and 16-17, 2004, Lincoln Center, New York
Visually stunning choreography that makes movement appear otherworldly.
Last year Shen Wei's choreography was a highlight of the Lincoln Center
Festival.
San Francisco Bay Area
· Summerfest - WestWave Dance Festival 2004
July 21-24, 2004, ODC Theater, 17th at Shotwell, San Francisco
7/29 - 8/1, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
Get a first look at some of the Bay Area's most cutting edge choreography.
Philadelphia
· Illadelph
Legends Festival 2004
July 25-31, 2004,The Boyer College of Music and Dance of Temple University,
Philadelphia
The ten-day hip-hop festival brings together local, national, and international
performers for lectures, demonstrations, open jam sessions, panel discussions,
master classes, and more.
London
·
Daimokh
18 July 2004 to 19 July 2004, Royal Opera House (Linbury)
The wonderful Chechen youth dance company return to London with their
explosive and sometimes graceful dance.
· Bolshoi
Ballet
19 July to 7 August 2004, Royal Opera House
This season brings "Swan Lake", "Don Q", "Spartacus",
"The Pharaoh’s Daughter" and the new version of "Romeo
and Juliet"
France:
Vaison la Romaine
· Sylvie
Guillem, Michael Nunn et William Trevitt
28 juillet 2004, Festival de Vaison la Romaine
Tournée estivale de Sylvie Guillem avec des pièces contemporaines
de Russell Maliphant.
France:
Perpignan
· Sylvie
Guillem, Michael Nunn et William Trevitt
31 juillet 2004, Estivales de Perpignan
Tournée estivale de Sylvie Guillem avec des pièces contemporaines
de Russell Maliphant.
Rome
· Rome
Opera Ballet - 'Swan Lake'
August 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, Caracalla Baths, Rome
Galina Samsova's production is back in this open air evocative venue.
· Invitation
to Dance
July 6 - 28, 2004, German Academy in Villa Massimo, Rome
14th edition of the popular ballet and modern dance summer festival.
Naples
· San
Carlo Ballet - 'Mediterranea'
July 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 2004, Teatro San Carlo, Naples
Mauro Bigonzetti's debut with San Carlo Ballet with a new choreography.
Venice
· La
Biennale di Venezia
July 9 - 30, 2004
2nd edition of the famous contemporary dance festival. Many different
companies in different venues.
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reviews
 International
Theatre School Festival - Dancemix: ITs Last Picture Show
by Maria Technosux
June 21, 2004 -- Amsterdam
It was particularly pleasurable to
watch the ice queen ballerina with the serious frown shake and shudder
her way through the mid-part, slowly melting into a sweating, breathing
dancer.
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Pacific Northwest Ballet School - 23rd Annual School Performance
by Dean Speer
June 19, 2004 -- McCaw Hall, Seattle
...PNB has really captured the attention
of guys who are interested in first-class training and experience, and
seeing so many well-trained men gives hope to the faint of heart that
men in ballet may have a wonderful future...
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more...
Bill
T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company - 'D-Man in the Waters (Part 1),'
'The Phantom Project: Still/Here Looking On' - Autobiography in the Third
Person
by Thea
Nerissa Barnes
June 18, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
In the post show talk given on 18 June at Sadler's Wells, Bill T. Jones
explained he is a student of three things: the 'ah ha!!' response to art,
of history and of the proposition an artist poses in making his art
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Bill
T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company - Social Memory and the Theatre of
Bill T. Jones
by Ramsay
Burt
June 15, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
I remember going to see "Still/Here" at the Edinburgh Festival
in 1995, already notorious for Arlene Croce's infamous refusal to see
it but to publish a devastating attack on it anyway. Compared with the
radicalism I remembered from the 1980s, I wondered what all the fuss was
about.
read more...
Bill
T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company - 'Reading Mercy and the Artificial
Nigger', 'Mercy 10 x 8 on a Circle' and more
by Stuart
Sweeney
June 15, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
An emotional evening with Jones' beautiful movement mixed with reminiscence
and film of the garden where the ashes his lover Arnie Zane were scattered
in 1988.
read more...
Niklas
Laustiola - 'Feeder', 'Await Turn', 'Faceless'
by Cerise
June 14, 2004 -- Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London
Snappy titles and unfathomably ambiguous advertising imagery go a long
way in the arts, but then when the audience turns up, you have to do more
than just stand and deliver.
read more...
Birmingham
Royal Ballet - 'Dante Sonata', 'The Two Pigeons': Birmingham Celebrates
Ashton Centenary
by Cassandra
June 11-12, 2004 -- Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
These dark children are far from unattractive: a hint about how fascism
in the 30's seduced so many? By contrast the Children of Light are gentle
and serene, the dignified entrance of the men suggesting the moral high
ground.
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George
Piper Dances - 'Approximate Sonata, I,V', 'Mesmerics', 'Broken Fall'
by Kate
Snedeker
June 8, 2004 -- Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Truly mesmerizing. Part ballet, part modern dance and part amusingly,
charming home video, Tuesday evening's performance of the George Piper
Dances was a complete and satisfying package.
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more...
Les Ballets C de la B - 'Foi': The Culture of Countertenors, Viols and Boxing Gloves
by Lyndsey
Winship
June 11, 2004 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
In 'Foi', the Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has
created a huge piece of dance theatre with lofty ambitions, which delves
into politics -- both global and personal -- religion, terror
and despair over an intense 90 minutes.
read more...
 Ballett
Frankfurt - 'The Room As It Was', 'Duo,' '(N.N.N.N.),' 'One Flat Thing
Reproduced': Lessons in Seeing
by Andre
Yew
June 12, 2004 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
Despite their shaggy facade, in contrast to classical ballet's highly
delineated, articulated, enunciated look, for example, the works are very
carefully crafted, which is made especially obvious by their deliberate
deconstruction of classical ballet.
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more...
 Ballett
Frankfurt - 'The Room As It Was', 'Duo,' '(N.N.N.N.),' 'One Flat Thing
Reproduced'
by Toba Singer
June 5, 2004 -- Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, California
This is a survival game elaborated through noise and sensory alienation,
defined by what happens above or below the tables which just happen to
be about waist high…
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more...
 Ballett
Frankfurt - 'The Room As It Was', 'Duo,' '(N.N.N.N.),' 'One Flat Thing
Reproduced'
by Mary Ellen Hunt
June 5, 2004 -- Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, California
The thing that matters most here
is movement, and Forsythe has stripped away all the extras to reveal it.
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more...
 Beach
Blanket Babylon Salutes San Francisco Ballet
by Mary Ellen Hunt
June 6, 2004
-- Club Fugazi, San Francisco
...Think the Moulin Rouge in Paris,
but better. Think Ethel Merman at the Moulin Rouge. Think Ethel Merman
in a 20-foot hat, accompanied by Louis XIV and James Brown...
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more...
 Sonia
Sabri - 'Rekha': Her Secret Garden
by Cerise
June 5, 2004 -- Purcell Room, London
Recalling Sonia Sabri's past performances, a blur of spins, colour, smiles,
and a flurry of exquisitely precise footwork is the impression that has
left a trace; and, somewhere at the vortex of this, a delicate, fine-boned
figurine with tapering, elegant arms is propelled by an effervescent centrifugal
force.
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more...
 Paul
Selwyn Norton and Andrew Morrish - 'My Fair DJ': Not Completely in the
Mix
by Lyndsey Winship
June 3-4, 2004 -- Purcell Room, London
"My Fair DJ" is a terrible name for a show, which is always
a bad start. A hip hop Pygmalion? Eliza Dolittle takes to the decks? A
cockney knees-up with added spin?
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more...
Random
Dance - 'AtaXia': Random Sings the Body Electric
by Julia Skene-Wenzel
June 3, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
Cognitive psychology and neuroscience
have allowed McGregor to create a new language by examining the implications
of states of dislocation and loss of control.
read more...
The
Royal Ballet - 'Onegin'
by Rosie
June 3, 2004 -- Opera House, London
It's a short ballet, and while economy
can be a virtue, to give 'Onegin' its power and depth you need an extremely
strong and balanced cast in the four lead roles.
read more...
 New
York City Ballet - 'Interplay,' 'Tarantella,' 'Chichester Psalms,' 'Eros
Dreams,' 'I'm Old Fashioned'
by
Kate Snedeker
June 2, 2004
-- New York State Theater, New York
The high-spirited antics of Robbins'
"Interplay" got the evening off to an energetic start. The cheery and
trick-filled choreography allowed the four men to display their differing,
but equally impressive talents.
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more...
 New
York City Ballet - 'Interplay,' 'Ivesiana,' 'Tarantella,' 'Stars and Stripes'
by
Kate Snedeker
May 30, 2004
-- New York State Theater, New York
The deceptively simple-seeming choreography
is packed with tricky technical feats, and the energetic cast was well
up to the challenge.
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more...
 New
York City Ballet - 'Western Symphony,' 'Ivesiana,' 'Who Cares?': Balanchine's
America from the Frontier to the City
by Jeff
Kuo
May 29, 2004 -- New York State Theatre, New York
But 'Western Symphony' is not about the way the west was won but
about the way only an immigrant could love America -- less Horace Greeley
("Go West, young man") and more Florenz Ziegfield ("Hello
Frisco").
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more...
 New
York City Ballet - 'Fancy Free,' 'Calcium Light Night,' 'Sonatas and Interludes,'
'Stars and Stripes': Has Johnny Gone for a Soldier?
by Jeff
Kuo
May 28, 2004 -- New York State Theatre, New York
Yet, the world has changed a lot since 1944, and this performance has
made me realize for the first time that 'Fancy Free' is a vintage ballet
and of the same era, for instance, as Lew Christensen's 'The Filling Station'
(1938)...
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more...
 nu:TEMPO
Experimental Dance Company: 'Nu' Not So New
by Thea
Nerissa Barnes
May 24, 2004 -- Cochrane Theatre, London
The expectation was the manner in which this infusion of a contemporary
perspective would be used to portray the power of Brazilian Orixás.
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1st
Microfestival of Italian Contemporary Dance
Camerino, Pollenza, Macerata, Civitanova: Dancing for/around Marche
by Rosella Simonari
May 22, 2004 matinee -- Camerino, Pollenz, Macerata, Civitanova, Italy
This original marathon attempted to
introduce different theatres of the region to dance.
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San
Francisco Ballet - Spring Student Showcase
by Rebecca
Hirschmann
May 20, 2004 -- Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Outside swans glided across the lake, and one might think it was a sign
of the purity of dance to be found inside.
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 Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theater: Ailey's Legacy Alive at the Academy
by Lewis Whittington, May 2004, Philadelphia
Among the many reasons Philadelphians love
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is that artistic director Judith Jamison
grew up here.
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more...
National
Ballet of Canada - 'Cinderella': Kudelka's "Cinderella" Extreme
Makeover
by Michael
Goldbarth
May 2004 -- Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, Canada
Mr. K's Creative Spirit must have been soaring during the ballet making
process as his Muse magically transformed a previously clichéd
'Cinderella' upside down and inside out!
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more...
Letter from the Editors
A year ago this month, CriticalDance.com published the first issue of Ballet-Dance Magazine. Over 600 articles later, we can safely say the magazine has met all our goals and more!
This edition of the magazine continues with more of the same with features on five of the most venerable dance ensembles of the world.
Featured are the Bolshoi, ABT, the Kirov, Pennsylvania Ballet and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
However, as always, there is also in-depth coverage of smaller and newer companies and events, no less of which is the 1st Microfestival of Contemporary Dance in Italy.
We hope you enjoy this anniversary publication. And as always, we love to hear what you think. Please post your comments in our
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