dirac Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 A story on the impact of San Francisco Ballet's "Mere Mortals" by Julie Zigoris in The San Francisco Standard. Quote She’s brought in a decidedly younger crowd to the War Memorial Opera House, and Tuesday night’s performance of Mere Mortals saw flocks of young(ish) audience members rocking multicolored fits, frosted hair and feathered masks. One attendee told The Standard she had seen the performance twice; another had flown from Washington state to San Francisco for 24 hours just to catch it. “It was fucking phenomenal,” said Joanna Karlinsky, who was at the show to celebrate her 60th birthday with her girlfriend. “It was as if Alvin Ailey, Lauren Anderson and Brian Eno had a love child.” Link to comment
dirac Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 A review of the gala concert of the Arabesque Competition in Perm at the by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance." Quote Some of the pas de deux shown at this gala were also danced in Perm. Amanda Gomes and Mikhail Timeav from the Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre performed the same scene from Vasiliev’s Fragments of a Biography, but the slight tension that Gomes had shown on the Bolshoi’s stage was absent in Perm. She danced with a freedom that caused the emotions Vasiliev infused into the pas de deux to resonate strongly. As at the Bolshoi gala, the Mariinsky Ballet’s Renata Shakirova (who in the meantime was promoted to principal dancer) contributed a pas de deux from Don Quixote, this time dancing alongside her Mariinsky colleague Alexei Timofeyev. Conductor, Ivan Khudyakov-Vedenyapin, set the pace for Ludwig Minkus’s score slightly slower than his Moscow colleague, and the pas de deux was cut short. But as before, Shakirova garnished her movements with flashy accents as if to provide exclamation marks. Link to comment
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