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[Watermill]

I know that the Willamette Week editors feel they have a mandate to be "youthful and edgy" (whatever that means, now that 90% of our culture is leaning that way) but Kelley Clarke is obviously having a hard time shifting gears from years of covering Canfield.  (See full review here)

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The party line that Stowell has been chanting the past few months, that "classicism isn't dull or boring," was made a flesh-pressing reality as Porretta swung Iino in front of him, roughly grabbed her hips and sunk her into a deep, wide second-position plié en pointe.

No, Kelly, that's how James Canfied would have set the piece: as an Apache dance.  Colleen Neary was true to Balanchine's original spirit for Rubies: lively, playful, affectionate, joyous.

It's a new day...time to let go of the raunch and anger.

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