dirac Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 The Philadelphia Ballet presents "Giselle." Quote Angel Corella is staging the timeless tale, Giselle, at the Academy of Music. "Giselle is one of the classical ballets of the repertoire," says Corella, Artistic Director of Philadelphia Ballet. "It's a beautiful, really poignant story." Link to comment
dirac Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 The School of American Ballet holds its 90th anniversary ball. Quote Coco Kopelman has sat on the board of the School of American Ballet (SAB) for nearly 30 years. Last night, she was honored at the school's 90th Anniversary Ball (alongside Suki Schorer, who is one of the last dancers and SAB teachers to have been personally trained by George Balanchine), but, some may say that her relationship with the school began many years ago when she was a young girl fascinated by Degas. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Ballet Manila presents "Le Corsaire." Quote Leading her ballet company, Ballet Manila, she diligently prepares to unveil the revamped production at Aliw Theater this weekend. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc. Quote Though MacKinnon hit a bullseye, don’t sleep on Maxwell’s lovely work as the second passer-by. Both of them understood the nice girl mixed with street smarts that makes the ballet work. Maxwell had a lithe, feline quality, shimmying with Gordon, but always moving his hand away. The one off moment was at the end of the pas de deux when Gordon really went in for a kiss. It didn’t work because he was trying to claim her too early; there was a whole contest about to happen. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 A review of Houston Ballet by Carla Escoda for Bachtrack. Quote Prokofiev’s darkly lush and glittering Cinderella was reportedly a hit when the ballet premiered at the Bolshoi in 1945. Conceived in war, this escapist fantasy provided a diversion from the bleak realities of postwar Russia. Since then, Prokofiev’s score has underpinned many reinventions among which Stanton Welch’s – originally set on Australian Ballet in 1997, now a staple of Houston Ballet’s rep – stands out for its touching rewrite of the central love story and its devastating send-up of the aristocracy. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 A study of "Odesa" and "Solitude" by Gay Morris for danceviewtimes. Quote Despite Odesa’s familiar structure, the ballet is anything but uninspired. It is striking how, in this instance, Ratmansky employs dance forms that could be called cliches, and yet renders them vivid and fresh. What makes him different from so many choreographers, and which Odesa demonstrates, is that he comes to a non-narrative work with an overarching vision, he doesn’t simply arrange steps. One senses he has a plan that is greater than a ballet’s disparate parts and that holds everything together. The result is that his works have an unusually high level of logic and clarity. At the same time, the dancers emerge as living human beings, not merely objects to be moved about the stage. Link to comment
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