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APRIL 2005
in this issue
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interviews
 Kurt
Froman: From Ballet to Broadway (Part
2 of 2)
by Kate Snedeker
First they hired me as the first
understudy as James, doing two shows a week for Ben Bowman, and also a
partial swing for the ensemble.
read
more...
 Matthew Bourne on 'Highland Fling': Worlds in Collision
by Patricia Somerset
He strongly believes that new works should not just be put on in London and New Adventures has built up relationships with venues around the country so that it can take its productions outside the capital.
read more...
 Toni
Pimble, Artistic Director of the Eugene Ballet: Fortuitous Twists
and Turns
by Dean Speer
Teaching is one of my passions.
I've done a lot of guest teaching and it's very interesting
to me that I find the whole range out there ...
read
more...
 Ronald Hynd and Annette Page: A Very Merry Couple
by Dean Speer and Francis Timlin
March 7, 2005 -- PNB Studios, Seattle, Washington
I've always had an interest in operetta and I loved the Elisabeth Schwarzkopf recording of Widow from 1953.
read more..
company focus
 
Image Gallery
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Selected Articles and Discussions
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'contact': Movement is Life, Ballet is Revenge
by Jeff Kuo
February 10, 2005 -- Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.
'Kiss Me, Kate'
by Patricia Somerset
November, 2004 -- Churchill Theatre, Bromley
'Barr Go Sail - Heel to Toe': Let's Put on a Show!
by Lyndsey Winship
February 26, 2005 -- Purcell Room, London
Chicken Shed Theatre Company - 'Peter Pan': Nobody Left Behind in Neverland
by Stuart Sweeney
December 15, 2004 -- Chicken Shed Theatre, Southgate, London
'Crazy for You': Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
by Stuart Sweeney
July 8, 2004 -- Churchill Theatre, Bromley, England
'Magic of the Dance': The Devil Getting His Due
by Stuart Sweeney
June 29, 2004 -- Churchill Theatre, Bromley, England
Beach
Blanket Babylon Salutes San Francisco Ballet
by Mary Ellen Hunt
June 6, 2004 -- Club Fugazi, San Francisco
'On
Your Toes' in London
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by Lyndsey Winship - August 14, 2003
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by Emma Pegler - August 9, 2003
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by Joanne Brack - August 4, 2003
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by RAK - August 4, 2003
'Contact'
by Catherine Pawlick
February 16, 2003 -- Curran Theater, San Francisco
Compagnia della Rancia - 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
by Patrizia Vallone
November 2002 -- Politeama Brancaccio Theater, Rome
'West Side Story': Forecasting Favorable Skies
by Joanne
July 27, 2002 -- Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon, London
'Kiss Me, Kate'
by Emma Pegler
November 2001 -- VIctoria Palace, London
Billy Elliott - the musical
Cats
Riverdance 2004-05
Susan Stroman's "Contact" - American Tour 2005
Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp's 'Movin' Out'
'Thoroughly Modern Millie' in the UK
A Chorus Line
Barr Go Sail (Heel to Toe)
"Mamma Mia" in Europe
Oklahoma!
'Seussical, the Musical'
"CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG" - The musical
Kiss Me Kate
'My Fair Lady'
More Broadway Musicals
Crazy For You
'Fosse' in the UK
Urinetown
Miss Saigon
Broadway (Fall 2003)
The Fantasticks
Donald O'Connor
Cabaret
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in Rome
West Side Story - Cannizaro Park
The King and I
Cats!
Broadway Affected by 9/11 Tragedy
"Contact" Wins Tony |
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| Fifth International Mariinsky Ballet Festival
 Opening
Night
by Catherine Pawlick
March 24, 2005 -- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
The Mariinsky premiere
of William Forsythe's "Approximate Sonata" and the
world premiere of David Dawson's "Reverence," created
specifically for six Kirov dancers, offered food for thought
in their billing as 'two ballets in the manner of the 21st century'.
read
more...
 Diana
Vishneva Gala Performance
by Catherine Pawlick
March 26, 2005 -- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
As
part of the Fifth International Mariinsky Ballet Festival, Diana
Vishneva, darling of the St. Petersburg ballet circles, launched
the first of three gala performances offered by the Mariinsky's
leading ladies with flash and panache.
read
more...
 Daria
Pavlenko Gala Performance
by Catherine Pawlick
March 28, 2005 -- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Daria
Pavlenko is a phenomenon that eludes precise categorization.
She is a mystery in motion... there is a sense of tragedy and
mystique in Pavlenko, but an equally prominent compassion and
warmth in her dancing.
read
more...
 Uliana
Lopatkina Gala Performance
by Catherine Pawlick
March 30, 2005 -- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Physically,
Lopatkina is the image of the perfect ballerina: tall, lithe,
long of limb and neck, emanating grace, never awkward. The most
musical of any Mariinsky dancer currently in the company, arguably
more musical than many dancers worldwide, she has an innate
understanding of music, rhythm and melody.
read
more...
 Stars
of World Ballet Gala Performance
by Catherine Pawlick
April 3, 2005 -- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
The
Fifth International Ballet Festival at the Mariinsky Theatre
closed in gallant fashion last night with a gala performance
including stars from three international companies in addition
to the Mariinsky's home-grown talents.
read
more...
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| Boston
Ballet
 'Falling
Angels' Mixed Bill
by Azlan Ezaddin
March 17, 2005 -- Wang Theatre, Boston
Whether
or not balletomanes in Boston will ever admit to consuming pints
of green beer, perceived or otherwise, on St Patrick's
Day, many may claim, honestly or through osmosis, to have witnessed
a significant event in the world of the performing arts on March
17th of this year.
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more...
'Falling
Angels' Mixed Bill
by Stephen Arnold
March 19, 2005 -- Wang Theatre, Boston
Appropriately,
the music of Arcangelo Corelli filled the chaste "Ten Part
Suite," choreographed by Lucinda Childs especially for
the Boston Ballet, with the serenity proper to Heaven.
read
more...
'Falling
Angels' Mixed Bill
by Azlan Ezaddin
March 20, 2005 matinee -- Wang Theatre, Boston
Practie
makes perfect, or nearly, as in the case of Boston Ballet's
fifth performance (third by this specific cast) of the "Falling
Angels" program Sunday afternoon that featured ballets
by three legendary choreographers.
read
more...
'Falling
Angels' Mixed Bill
by Azlan Ezaddin
March 20, 2005 evening -- Wang Theatre, Boston
Boston Ballet set a highly
progressive program for itself with three 20th century works
and one brand new ballet by three of the most legendary choreographers
of the modern era, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe and Lucinda
Childs.
read
more...
 'La
Sylphide'
by Stephen Arnold
March 5, 2005 -- Wang Theatre, Boston
In
his autobiography, Bournonville wrote, "It is the mission
of art in general, and the theatre in particular, to intensify
thought, to elevate the mind, and to refresh the senses."
The Boston Ballet production of "La Sylphide" easily
meets Bournonville's imperative.
read
more...
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editors'
picks
Los
Angeles
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'contact'
April 12-17, 2005 - Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks
The national tour of Susan Stroman's Tony award winning musical makes its only southern California stop.
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Matthew Bourne's 'Play Without Words'
April 8 -
May 29, 2005 - Ahmanson Theatre, Music Center of Los Angeles
Inspired by the 1963 film, "The Servant," this enthralling event is delightfully comic, scandalous and witty.
· Emio Greco | PC - 'Rimasto Orfano'
April 29-30, 2005 - Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles
Local premier of dance theater collcaboration by Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.
Chicago
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Savion Glover - 'Improvography'
April 30, 2005 - Centre East
at the North Shore Center
for the Performing Arts in Skokie
Tap sensation Glover stops in Skokie for two performances only.
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Hubbard Street Dance - Infinite Encounters Program
March 30 - April 17, 2005 - Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater
for Music and Dance at Millennium Park
The third program of their Superstar Season brings works by Forsythe, Bruce, and Duato.
Washington, D.C.
· Ballet Hispanico - 'Night Club,' 'Eternamente y un Día,' 'Bury Me Standing'
April 5-6, 2005 - Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
Exciting works by Tina Ramirez (4/5), Peter Pucci and Ramón Oller (4/6).
· Masters of African American Choreography
April 20-25, 2005 - Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
The contribution of African American choreographers to modern dance come alive in five exhilarating programs by world famous companies.
New
York
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Works & Process - 'Balanchine Continued ... at Pacific Northwest Ballet'
May 8-9, 2005 - Sackler Center for Arts Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Principal Patricia Barker leads a cast of dancers performing seminal Balanchine works along with Stowell's choreography, which is rich in the tradition of the master choreographer.
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Mark Morris Dance Group
April 19-23, 2005 - Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn
MMDG's spring appearance at its neighborhood Opera House includes an emotional range of works from the delicate Silhouettes" to the rockin' "Rhymes with Silver." Not to be missed .
San Francisco Bay Area
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San
Francisco Ballet - 'Romeo & Juliet,' 'Dybbuk,' 'In the Night,' etc.
Apr 5 - May 8, 2005, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Three programs for every taste.
·
Alonzo
King's LINES Ballet
Apr 14-17, 2005, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco
Includes a world premiere on a commissioned score by Somei Satoh.
Philadelphia
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet
April 21-23, 2005 - Zellerbach Theatre, Philadelphia
Desmond Richardson and Dwight Roden bring their urban contemporary ballet company back to Philadelphia, with a master class offered on Friday, April
22 at 1:00 pm.
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Pennsylvania
Ballet - "The Concert"
April 27-May 1, 2005 - Merriam Theater, Philadelphia
PAB presents Jerome Robbins' ballet parody as well as Christopher Weeldon's "Continuum."
Seattle
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Pacific Northwest Ballet - American Choreographers Program
April 14-24, 2005 - McCaw Hall, Seattle
PNB makes ballet patriotic with a full evening of American choreographers.
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Mark Morris Dance Group
April 28-30, 2005 - Meany Hall, University of Washington
Copenhagen
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Royal
Danish Ballet- 'The Little Mermaid'
April 15 - May 6, 2005, Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
World premiere of John Neumeier's full length ballet based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
London
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Chicken Shed Theatre - 'Globaleyes'
April 19 - May 28, 2005, Chicken Shed Theatre, London
Globaleyes is an imaginative piece of dance theatre, exploring an on-going
global conversation.
·
Sylvie
Guillem and the Ballet Boyz - Mixed Rep
April 20-23, 2005, Sadler's Wells, London
This programme features the exhilarating ''Broken Fall," Guillem
in the solo "Two" and the Ballet Boyz in "Torsion."
Rome
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Rome
Opera Ballet – 'Sleeping Beauty'
May 19-26 – Teatro Costanzi
Paul Chalmer’s production of the classical master peace is back
after 3 years.
Ferrara
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Nederland
Dans Theater – '27’52,' 'Shutters Shut,' 'Minus'
April 17, 18 – Teatro Comunale
An occasion to see this brilliant company in peaces by Kylian, Lightfoot
and Naharin.
Tallinn
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Estonian
National Ballet - 'Shannon Rose'
April 23 and May 5, 2005 -Estonian Opera House, Tallinn
An
intimate and beautiful Irish story, staged by Hungarian choreographer
Youri Vàmos.
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Sasha Pepelyayev/Theatre Apart - 'Doors'
April 29 - May 6, 2005, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn
Sasha Pepelyayev, one of the leading dance theatre artists in Europe,
premieres his new piece "Doors."
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reviews
Shobayana Jeyasingh Dance Company- 'Flicker' and 'Transtep': Syncretic Synchronicity
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
March 22-23, 2005 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
"Flicker" presents the gestures and brisk postures of classical Indian or rhythmical sensibility embedded in conventional dance phrasing.
read more...
 Angika Dance Company - 'Bhakti': Devotion
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
March 22, 2005 -- Robin Howard Dance Theatre, London
The musical accompaniment by MIDIval PunditZ with its contemporary club mixes and classical Indian music layered the performance landscape with multiple contrapuntal sensibilities.
read more...
 Pacific Northwest Ballet's 2005 Choreographers' Showcase: Tomorrow's Choreographers Given Voice
by Dean Speer
March 23, 2005 -- McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington
Olivier Wevers' "One's Symphony" impressed me as being the most autobiographical of the five ballets.
read more...
 Pacific Northwest Ballet's 'The Merry Widow': Richly Merry
by Dean Speer
March 19, 2005 -- McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington
Fabulous costumes, sets and lighting, fabulous rendition (orchestration by Sir John Lanchbery) of Lehar's music, and a fabulous job of re-staging and coaching by Hynd and his ballerina wife, Annette Page.
read more...
 Compania Vientos del Sur: Futbol Tango - 'Pasiones - Tango y Musical'
by Rosella Simonari
March 19, 2005 -- Teatro Pergolesi, Jesi (Acona), Italy
The Vientos del Sur Company from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has completely captured the audience's attention in their re-working of the traditional form of tango.
read more...
 Jazz Tap Ensemble: Tap for Dummies
by Jeff Kuo
March 19, 2005 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
... tap acts will play in Peoria, but the real question was would it play for the more exacting audience of Orange County grade schoolers?
read more...
 Uustants 7
by Stuart Sweeney
March 18-20, 2005 -- Tallinn, Estonia
With established artists, those making their way, and student participation, Uustants can sometimes feel like London's Resolution! festival, with the good, the bad, the indifferent and including some pleasant surprises.
read more...
 Singapore Dance Theatre - 'Birds of Paradise', 'Maninyas' and 'The Lost Space'
by Ana Abad-Carles
March 16, 2005 -- Peacock Theatre, London
It is only a pity that the works they chose for their London season were not perhaps the most becoming for a troupe that performs in the capital for the first time.
read more...
 Moving Africa 2: La Compagnie Mali - 'Ti Chèlbè; Compagnie Tâ Burkina Faso -'Buddu': A Woman Indomitable
by Cassandra
March 15, 2005 -- The Barbican, London
Moving Africa 2 this year featured companies from Burkina Faso and Mali.
read more...
Royal Ballet - 'Rhapsody', 'Pavane Pour Une Infant Defunte', 'Duo Concertante', 'Symphony in C'
by Lyndsey Winship
March 14, 2005 -- Royal Opera House, London, England
Jessica Curtis's new designs for Ashton's "Rhapsody" paint this as a pretty, pastel ballet. But she dreamily washes over the fact that its choreographic palette reflects a much bolder range of colour, decorated with fiendishly difficult tricks, brisk petit allegros and some quirky eccentricities.
read more...
 'Thoroughly Modern Millie': Not Quite Shakespeare
by Patricia Somerset
March 9, 2005 -- Churchill Theatre, Bromley, London
Probably the best thing about "Thoroughly Modern Millie" is that it doesn't take itself seriously.
read more...
 Nina Rajarani Dance Creations: Srishti - 'Shringara,' 'Shukra': Abstraction and Ecstasy
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
March 8, 2005 -- The Place, London
With insight and respect, a contemporaneous approach can produce quite exquisite dance works.
read more...
 Oregon Ballet Theatre: Body, Mind, Spirit Program: Trinity of Intent
by Dean Speer
March 5, 2005 -- Keller Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
Oregon Ballet Theatre delighted us with ballets to satisfy the minds and spirits of the audience supporters, presented by the beautiful and athletic bodies of OBT's talented pool of dancers.
read more...
 Pennsylvania Ballet - 'La Fille Mal Gardee': Crowding the Comedy
by Lori Ibay
March 4, 2005 -- Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Although the stage sometimes seemed too small for the scenery, and despite some un- cooperative props (a flying scythe here, an unruly ribbon there), Pennsylvania Ballet's principals outshone a rusty-appearing corps, treating their audience to a lighthearted country romance.
read more...
 Pennsylvania Ballet - 'La Fille Mal Gardee'
by Lewis Whittington
March 4-12, 2005 -- Academy of Music, Philadelphia
This is the first time Pennsylvania
Ballet has tackled the Ashton style and it paid off both fair and (sumptuously)
fowl ...
read more...
 Australian Dance Theatre - 'The Age of Unbeauty': The View Twenty Minutes into the Future
by Cassandra
March 4, 2005 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
There is a lot of violence, much of it aimed at women: in an early sequence a woman dressed only in underwear and bound and blindfolded is manipulated with vicious cruelty by a man ...
read more...
 Australian Dance Theatre - 'Birdbrain'
by Lyndsey Winship
March 2, 2005 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
This is modern dance as an extreme sport, and the adrenaline-fuelled athleticism comes thick and fast in Birdbrain, ADT's techno-take on "Swan Lake".
read more...
 Rambert Dance Company - 'Irony of Fate', 'Songs of a Wayfarer', 'Tragedy of Fashion', 'Swamp' : Rewards for the Intrepid
by Annie Wells
February 23 , 2005 -- Theatre Royal, Brighton, England
No stops barred - a soul-warming delivery of another eclectic selection of superlative Rambert originals with live music from London Musici reminded of the versatility and brilliance that has long made this company mighty.
read more...
 Francis Angol: Moments of Movements - 'Physically Masculine' 'Moments': Still in Search of Themselves
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
February 12, 2005 -- Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells, London
Angol has the distinction of creative use of African movement vocabularies in a lyrical contemporary manner that seeks to reveal his contemplations.
read more...
Letter from the Editors
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and Ballet-Dance Magazine's coverage of musical theater. We hope you enjoy
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