Friday, May 27

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The husband of Ballet Arizona dancer Colleen Hoopes is charged with second-degree murder.

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Colleen was a professional dancer with Ballet Arizona for the last five years. 

"You could tell how happy she was when she was dancing. That's where she showed her most joy and she's so free. It was really beautiful watching her on stage," her sister, Michaela Buckley, said.

 

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A review of Boston Ballet by Jeffrey Gantz in The Boston Globe.

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In the last act, we still have Nissinen’s insertion of a brief duet for Odette and Siegfried; set to music originally intended for the pas de cinq, and using the vocabulary from their act-two pas de deux to heart-stopping effect, it allows them to dance out Siegfried’s repentance and Odette’s forgiveness. The finale, however, remains problematic. Siegfried holds Odette aloft as a sign of their reunion, whereupon Rothbart collapses. The score shifts from B minor to B major, and we anticipate a happy real-life ending; instead, Odette throws herself into the lake, and when a grieving Siegfried sees her in swan heaven, via projection, he follows.

 

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An appreciation of the late Malaysian dancer and teacher Lee Lee Lan.

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Much has been said about Lee’s personal accomplishments and legacy, which include many firsts — she was the first Asian examiner appointed by UK-based Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, the founding president of the Dance Society of Malaysia and vice-president of the World Dance Alliance at one point. Artistically, her 1981 interpretation of a “Malay ballet” titled Soraya is cemented in Malaysian dance history, a libretto that attempted to incorporate local traditional dance elements into a ballet performance for the first time.

The list goes on...... 

 

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 A local TV interview with Paul Vasterling.

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Paul Vasterling from Nashville Ballet talked about the Ballet’s final performances of the season.