From the Contra Costa Times:
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Kirov worth the long wait
By Mary Ellen Hunt
TIMES CORRESPONDENT
A CERTAIN kind of ineffable grandeur descends upon Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall this week with the return of Russia's Kirov Ballet and Orchestra to the Bay Area after a 12-year hiatus.
The opening program Tuesday night offered not just imperial flourishes but a magisterial sweep, by way of three works from one of the 20th century's most influential choreographers, Mikhail Fokine.
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From the Chronicle:
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Kirov Ballet's opener a brilliant, thrilling spectacle
Ann Murphy, Special to The Chronicle
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Imagine 19th century ballet turned in a centrifuge. Out go the stiff tutus, the stagey forays into dead-end divertissement and grandiloquent displays of virtuosity. Out, too, are the traditional stage arrangements, with their visual and social hierarchies mirroring a world of princes, queens and tsars.
What remains of the work of early 20th century choreographer Mikhail Fokine performed by the Kirov Ballet as it was Tuesday at Cal Performances in Berkeley is a distillation that is not only modernist but leads to thrilling spectacle and explosive choreographic arrangements.
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