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GO: Emanuel Gat does Mozart

March 28, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

There are dances I can't even fathom disliking. But I can understand not liking Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat's thoroughly down to earth approach to Mozart's Requiem, the composer's final appeal to God and death. The disconnect between music and steps--pedestrian gestures repeated like musical motifs and Janet Jackson steps so tight they're rubbing against each other the way a cat rubs against … [Read more...]

GO: Puppets, here, there, and on Long Island

March 27, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

...Specifically, Basil Twist's extraordinary "Petrushka" at Lincoln Center next week through April 13 and the Hudson Vagabond Puppets' very sweet Beatrix Potter ballets at Tilles Center in Long Island this Sunday. Here's my Newsday preview:  "It's amazing that people relate to a bunch of wood and cloth," marvels puppeteer extraordinaire Basil Twist. "I think as we become more computerized, we … [Read more...]

Macaulay Watch: The chief Times dance critic is getting better (REVISED)

March 23, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

...and not just because he agrees with ME about "King Arthur," though I have to say it's not at all fun writing a negative review of work you generally admire, so I am grateful for the company. Macaulay has settled down, dug in and begun shedding his mannerisms (the self-celebration as moony, sensitive poet, for example, and the sarcasm). He can describe what he's seeing and why it matters in … [Read more...]

Macaulay Watch: The chief Times dance critic is getting better (REVISED Monday)

March 23, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr 3 Comments

...and not just because he agrees with ME about "King Arthur," though I have to say it's not at all fun writing a negative review of work you generally admire, so I am grateful for the company. Macaulay has settled down, dug in and begun shedding his mannerisms (the self-celebration as moony, sensitive poet, for example, and the sarcasm). He can describe what he's seeing and why it matters in … [Read more...]

GO? St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s “Carmen”

March 13, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr 1 Comment

The preview below involved one of those maddening situations where no video of the ballet existed--and I'd never seen the company. I read everything I could find on the troupe (on Nexis, for example, and the ballet boards)--but there wasn't a single review, even, of this particular ballet, which could either be marvelous or a bust. I hate being reduced to a reporter--just reporting what the … [Read more...]

Mark Morris’s “King Arthur”: I didn’t like it.

March 8, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

Morris has made some of my favorite works. But this is not one of them. Here's my review from Newsday: Henry Purcell's 1691 "King Arthur" wasn't ever an opera, exactly. Proud of their theater tradition and suspicious of this Italian business of singing your way through a story, the 17th century English preferred the semi-opera, a play in "blank verse, adorn'd with scenes, machines, songs and … [Read more...]

Apollinaire Scherr

is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, as well as SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to... Read More…

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