dirac Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 A review of New York City Ballet by Jay Rogoff for WAMC. Quote Unity Phelan, as Titania, dances the most sublime comic sequence in the ballet when, bewitched by Puck, she conceives a passion for Gilbert Bolden III as Bottom, a mortal enchanted with an ass’s head. Bottom partners her, trotting, stopping to scratch, and distracted by her bribe of sweet hay, but he gets the job done, and we recognize in him a funhouse mirror of our own sometimes asinine romantic selves. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 The Northern School of Contemporary Dance dumps classical ballet from its curriculum. Quote Ballet has been ditched as a requirement for school-entry auditions because of its “contentious nature”, with teaching staff explaining that the traditional mode of dance comes with the baggage of “white European ideas”. Link to comment
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