Fall 2004 Ballet Review is Out

[Ari]

Contents:

Reviews From

The Hague--Leigh Witchel

Kansas City-- Martha Ullman West

Paris--Leigh Witchel

Denishawn Dances--Barbara Palfy

New York--Joel Lobenthal

Boston--Debra Cash

St. Petersburg--Joel Lobenthal

Alexandrova in Paris--Don Daniels

In Balanchine's Company--Barbara Milberg Fisher

Martha Graham Redux--Alice Helpern

Portraits of Mr. B--Carolyn George

Visions & Challenges in Copenhagen--Camille Hardy

A Conversation with Antonio Granjero--Francis Mason

Ashton & Balanchine in Hartford--Eric M. Zafran

London Dance Scene--Photographs by Petra Bober

London Reporter--Clement Crisp

Music on Disc--George Dorris

Check It Out

[Helene]

In Leigh Witchel's opening review of Nederlands Dans Theater's Essence of Dance program, there were two striking things:

1. The phrase "full-out flail" that was so invocative

2. The closing line that sums up the litmus test for judging contemporary ballet:

It will be interesting to see if his works, and the essence of dance itself, follow the examples here in the direction of movement and form or those in the direction of sensation and effect.