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Thursday, June 9


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A review of the National Ballet of Japan by Naomi Mori for Bachtrack.

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The role of Alice is a demanding one, hardly off-stage during all three acts. The choreography is difficult, with lots of off-balance poses and a lot of duets. Opening night Alice Yui Yonezawa played the role with a natural approach, existing on the stage as the curious Alice herself, while dancing with pure clarity, elegance and excellent musicality. Alice shrinks and expands, races with strange animals, swims into a sea of tears, runs through the chaotic kitchen where a baby transforms into a pig and the hysterical cook manufactures sausages while flinging her knife. Alice's sweetheart, Jack, who transforms into the Knave of Hearts, is danced by Takafumi Watanabe. It is not a rewarding role but Watanabe partnered Yonezawa well, his boy-next-door character a good match and with a few opportunities to show his virtuoso technique.

 

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A review of the English National Ballet in "Giselle" by Gia Kourlas in The New York Times.

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Akram Khan’s “Giselle” isn’t so much a remake of a treasured ballet as it is an impressionistic proposition: Is there a way that “Giselle” could be sensed or felt instead of seen or heard? Certainly, it’s dark. You start to think that its lighting designer, Mark Henderson, is sentimental about caves.

 

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