dirac Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 A rise in the state's COVID-19 cases causes anxiety for Connecticut Ballet. Quote For the dancers and staff at the Connecticut Ballet, the virus situation means that nothing is certain, even with two weeks left until the big show. “All it’s gonna take is a little bit of a spread, and I’m afraid we may we may be facing just an avalanche of people running for the exit signs,” Raphael said. Link to comment
dirac Posted December 5, 2021 Author Share Posted December 5, 2021 A review of Polunin Ink by Graham Watts for DanceTabs. Quote Kobborg has created a much-redacted version of Shakespeare’s tragedy, especially when compared to the familiar choreography of Kenneth MacMillan and other major productions by Frederick Ashton and John Cranko. The action is cut to the bone in a ballet that lasted just under 80 minutes. There is no nurse, no bedroom pas de deux, no market place sword fight between the Capulets and Montagues (no Lord and Lady Montague, at all), no Rosalind, no harlots; poor Juliet has but two friends and the Capulet ball is more like a house party. None of these excisions or reductions are missed,,,,,,,,, Review by Stefan Kyriazis in The Daily Express. Quote Polunin is an artist whose exceptional talents have a visceral potency, matched by a presence that radiates to the furthest row. Just in case we forget that it's all about him, he comes on at the very start for a newly created divertissement, leaping and turning like a young god, and blowing kisses (in character as Romeo?) like a rock star. The grandstanding is particularly appropriate in a venue on this impossible scale, where every gesture needs to be oversold. Link to comment
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