Thursday, May 6

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A review of the new short movie made for New York City Ballet's gala by Lyndsey Winship in The Guardian.

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Throughout, Coppola’s presence is not intrusive, the arc is effective, the feel is intimate, and it’s brief enough at 25 minutes to absolutely leave you wanting more.

Gia Kourlas in The New York Times

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Sofia Coppola doesn’t come from the dance world. Does it matter? Her films have always had an understated choreographic elegance — a dreamy pacing that can make a pause feel like a musical note or crystallize an everyday gesture into a sensation. She pays attention to the in-between moments. Even though her films aren’t about dance, that’s exactly what they do: They dance.

A look at the movie.

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Reteaming with Philippe Le Sourd, cinematographer of her last two films, the film was shot on location at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center and features a look at five new works.

 

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An appreciation of Jacques d'Amboise by Robert Nott in The Santa Fe New Mexican.

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Ever exuberant and enthusiastic in both his performances and in life, d’Amboise left his dance footprints on New Mexico when he co-founded NDI New Mexico, headquartered in Santa Fe, in 1994.

“He was the Pied Piper of dance in New Mexico,” said longtime Santa Fean and former real estate agent Pat French, who first introduced d’Amboise to former Acequia Madre Elementary School Principal Leslie Carpenter around 1990.

A remembrance by Martha Ullman West for Oregon ArtsWatch.

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Bolender loved him, too, told me lots of stories about him in our interviews and conversations, and that’s the reason d’Amboise had been asked to officiate, so to speak, at Bolender’s memorial – performed, and I mean performed, before a packed house at the Lyric Theater where KCB was in the middle of a run of the Nutcracker. D’Amboise’s tribute to Bolender was spoken, and danced, as he moved around the stage, rapping in every sense of the word about his friend.

An appreciation by Peter Tonguette for The Washington Examiner.

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His mother was not wrong: In the spirit of old-time movie stars whose given names are junked for those that better suited their personas, Georgiana surely recognized that rechristening her son would lend him an enviable exoticism. Yet, for his admirers, part of the fascination was that d’Amboise’s regal moniker didn’t quite match his personality: Perhaps owing to his background as a Staten Islander, there was something scrappy and streetwise about d’Amboise’s stage presence that made his elegant line and immaculate technique all the more surprising, an authentically American admixture of toughness and artistry.

 

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San Francisco Ballet announces the lineup for Helgi Tomasson's farewell season.

 

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Tomasson’s “Harmony,” choreographed during the COVID-19 shutdown, is one of four in-person world premieres scheduled for the season, along with Cathy Marston’s “Mrs. Robinson” — a dance take on “The Graduate” — and new works by Christopher Wheeldon and Dwight Rhoden.