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[updated August 30, 2010]
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columns
New Features
by the Editorial Staff
Kate Snedeker Executive Director
Last winter, CriticalDance celebrated its 10th anniversary. This summer, we celebrate seven continuous years of magazine publishing. Ballet-Dance Magazine has grown and morphed since its debut in June 2003. With more contributions than ever before from around the globe and a need to fill the staggering gap vacated by traditional media, the magazine will add new features, including recurring columns by writers based internationally, more frequent article updates, and a presence on Facebook, among other minor enhancements (we will therefore no longer have month-specific issues).
We hope you like the improvements!
PS - A more comprehensive search feature for past articles is being planned. In the meantime, you can continue to use the search link in the menu list in the top left corner of this page.
 San Francisco Bay Area
by Heather Desaulniers
August 2010 review
September 2010 preview
August is a month of anticipation. As the summer draws to a close, the promise of the next phase awaits. January has obvious cache for beginnings and fresh starts, but September is equally a time of and for change; a preparation; an unveiling. Football rivalries, television schedules and school terms all get underway this month, and for choreography fans, we look forward to and contemplate the upcoming dance season.
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The Tosca Project
American Conservatory Theatre
San Francisco
 ACT's 'The Tosca Project'
by Heather Desaulniers
June 10, 2010
History is compelling. Representations of real-life events are just more interesting than those that are made-up. These are the true human experience; depictions that, for a moment, allow the audience insight into a past era and the experience of another's reality. American Conservatory Theater's The Tosca Project shares the long journey of a celebrated North Beach landmark: Tosca Cafe. As numerous decades pass onstage, change is there, but so is stability. By the time the lights fade in the final scene, many things have developed, evolved and adapted, but much has stayed the same.
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ACT's 'The Tosca Project'
by Catherine Pawlick
June 19, 2010
Tracing the history of San Francisco’s landmark Tosca Café from 1919 to present day, American Conservatory Theatre’s latest production, “The Tosca Project,” is an engaging 90-minute spectacle that reveals a diverse range of dancing genres across the decades. Illustrating its story line through movement, “Tosca Project” is a bright new take on San Francisco history that delivers an emotional experience through the themes of love and loss. Aided by a stellar cast that includes both A.C.T. actors and principal dancers from the San Francisco Ballet, “Tosca Project” combines the best of both acting and dancing.
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ABT
2010 Met Season
'Don Quixote'
by Colleen Boresta
May 29, 2010 matinee
The ballet, “Don Quixote,” is not really about the enigmatic knight who is always fighting windmills. The Don himself is only a secondary character in the ballet. It’s actually about a spirited young Spanish girl, Kitri, who is in love with Basilio, a poor barber. The point of “Don Quixote,” however, is not its story. Don Q was choreographed by Marius Petipa, a 19th century Frenchman living in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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'Lady of the Camellias'
by Jerry Hochman
May 26, 2010
There are many reasons to enjoy John Neumeier’s “Lady of the Camellias,” and based on the audience response at the May 26 performance, American Ballet theatre has a new hit production. Although “Lady of the Camellias” is a ballet love story, it doesn’t have the kind of explosive choreography that ballet-goers are accustomed to seeing in ballet love stories.
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'La Bayadere'
by Colleen Boresta
May 22, 2010 matinee
Marius Petipa’s "La Bayadère" has been danced in Russia since its premiere in 1877. We in the West, however, were only introduced to the splendors of this balletic jewel in the second half of the 20th century. This was mainly due to the efforts of two Kirov Ballet defectors – Rudolph Nureyev and Natalia Makarova.
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'La Bayadere'
by Jerry Hochman
May 18, 19, 2010
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A Tribute to Leonid Zhdanov
by Saul Marziali
Last 14th of May, Leonid Zhdanov, one of the greatest and most creative teachers of classical ballet and pas de deux of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet Academy, suddenly left us for ever. He was almost 83 years old and he was still active as a pedagogic and artistic adviser in this famous School.
Combining performing arts education and traditional studio training
by Ashley Miller
For dance students who are serious in pursuing a career in dance, performing arts schools provide a foundation for the years of training that are yet to come. |
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All-Balanchine
reviews
 Washington Ballet - 'Genius³'
by Heather Desaulniers
May 19, 2010 -- Harman Center for the Arts, Sidney Harman Hall, Washington, DC
Choreographers are magicians. Not just in a figurative sense, but quite literally. Creating dance certainly takes special skill; the translation of ideas into movement is magical all by itself. But, there is also some good old-fashioned illusion present in much choreography.
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 Rambert Dance Company - 'The Art of Touch,' 'RainForest' and 'A Linha Curva'
by David Mead
May 25, 2010 -- Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Every so often you come across a piece of contemporary dance that is so beautiful, so at one with the music and everything around it, that you just can’t take your eyes off the stage. The lucky Sadler’s Wells audience got two such gems on Rambert’s latest London programme.
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 Basel Ballett - Richard Wherlock's 'Milk and Honey'
by Saul Marziali
May 26, 2010 -- Monte Carlo
During the last "Tremplin Jeunes Danseurs" in Monte-Carlo, I had the pleasure to meet again after a few years, Richard Wherlock, the director and chief choreographer of the Basel Ballett, as well as Catherine Brunet, its Managing Director, who was recently honored by the French government with the decoration "Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres".
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 This is The Place
by David Mead
May 22, 2010 -- Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London
The Place is 40 years old. The building, in a quiet side street near London’s Euston Station, looks so unassuming, especially when approached from the original Duke’s Road side. Yet it has now been at the forefront of modern dance for four decades.
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Compañía Nacional de Danza - 'Bach: Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness'
by Karen Barr
May 11, 2010 -- The National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada
The Compañía Nacional de Danza takes the stage in the nation’s capital, for their only Canadian performance. Tonight’s ballet is entitled “Bach: Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness”. In the audience sits Eudaldo Mirapeix, Ambassador of Spain to Canada and members of the embassy. They are understandably proud of the award winning Spanish choreographer, Nacho Duato.
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DeMa Contemporary Dance - '6ix Works'
by Victoria Dombroski
May 8, 2010 -- Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY
DeMa Contemporary Ballet’s “6ix Works” was a beautiful start to the fresh and innovative company’s debut season. This talented group of dancers showed strength in ballet technique, while presenting works with contemporary intricacy and individuality. With such a strong opening, it will be wonderful to see the growth and progression of this emerging group of artists.
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Balé da Cidade de São Paulo - STEPS #12 International Dance Festival Switzerland
by Renée E. D'Aoust
May 2, 2010 -- Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland
The two pieces on the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo program for the STEPS International Dance Festival, sponsored by Migros, and currently taking place across Switzerland, allowed the dancers to prove their contemporary range -- wisely, I thought, given the marketing of the Company as one that has “absorbed the colorful, body-focused culture of Brazil.”
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Shen Wei Dance Arts - 'Re- (Part I),' 'Re- (Part II)' and 'Re- (Part III)'
by Carmel Morgan
April 30, 2010 -- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Theater, Washington, DC
City Dance 2 - 'Contact'
by Heather Desaulniers
May 1, 2010 -- The Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda, Maryland
Evergreen City Ballet - 'The Sleeping Beauty'
by Dean Speer
March 28, 2010 -- Ikea Performing Arts Center, Renton, Washington
Gesel Mason Performance Projects - 'Women, Sex & Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like A Ho, Sometimes You Don't'
by Carmel Morgan
March 27, 2010 -- Robert & Arlene Kogod Theatre, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
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Focus:
English National Ballet
'Alice in Wonderland'
by David Mead
March 5, 2009 -- Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Culture Centre
'Manon'
by David Mead
January 2, 2009 -- London Coliseum
'The Sleeping Beauty'
by Cassandra
January 18, 2006 -- London Coliseum
'Swan Lake'
by Stuart Sweeney
July 17, 2004 -- Royal Albert Hall, London
A Meeting of Minds
by Matz Skoog
Artistic Director of English National Ballet
June, 2003
'Coppelia'
by Kate Snedeker
July 12, 2003 -- Sadler's Wells Theatre
'Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes,' 'Melody On The Move' and 'The Rite Of Spring'
by Stuart Sweeney
July 2003 -- Sadler's Wells, London
'Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes,' 'Melody On The Move' and 'The Rite Of Spring'
by Petra Tschiene
July 8, 2003 -- Sadler's Wells, London |
editors' choice
· Fall for Dance Festival
Sep 28 - Oct 9, City Center, New York
Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Miami City Ballet, New York City Ballet, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Companhia Urbana de Dança, San Francisco Ballet, paul taylor Dance Company, Corella Ballet, Russell Maliphant Company, Tero Saarinen Company, American Ballet Theatre and more.
· International Ballet Festival of Miami
September 3 - 12, Miami
The International Ballet Festival consists of ballet performances, workshops, dance film series, art exhibition and master classes, taking place in Miami Beach and City of Miami.
· Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
June 23 - August 29, Becket, Massachusetts
Nina Ananiashvili & the State Ballet of Georgia, Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and more.
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Executive Editor
Kate Snedeker
Executive Editor 2003-2005
Mary Ellen Hunt
Focus and Photo Editors
Elizabeth McPherson, Dean Speer
Associate Editors & Compositors
Francis Timlin, Holly Messitt, Lori Ibay, Lisa Claybaugh, Azlan Ezaddin, Jerry Hochman
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