Friday, January 19

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Kim Jones of Dior celebrates the memory of Rudolf Nureyev in his new menswear collection.

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There is a family connection: Jones’s uncle was the ballet dancer and photographer Colin Jones, whose pictures of Nureyev, driving, reading, chatting on the phone, as well as dancing, formed a book left on each seat.

 

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A performance of Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands at Sadler's Wells is interrupted by protesters.

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Members from the collective Culture Workers Against Genocide interrupted the sold-out ballet and attempted to gain access to the stage, before being removed from the north London venue on January 18.

Pictures of the disorder, circulated on social media, show figures apprehended by approximately four security guards, dressed in high-vis jackets.

 

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Colorado Ballet presents "Jekyll and Hyde."

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Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic novella, this production explores the depths of the human psyche through its haunting narrative, powerful choreography, and evocative score performed live by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra, featuring music from acclaimed composers Frédéric Chopin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, and Henryk Wieniawski.

 

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Helen Pickett and Alonzo King will both have works performed in Boston in the next months.

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Pickett describes her new work emerging from courage and tenacity and freedom of choice. She compares the narratives and characters in her recent full-length works — Emma Bovary, a woman looking for passion and creative response, and the accusers and accused in “The Crucible,” mining the tensions of the Salem Witch Trials.

“These are a bunch of rebels,” she said.