American Ballet Theatre / Metropolitan Opera House, NYC / May 10 – July 3, 2004New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, NYC / April 27 – June 27, 2004Dance Theatre of Harlem AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE When it comes to George Balanchine’s 100th birthday, the New York City Ballet is, by rights, the chief […]
Archives for May 2004
BALLET GALORE: WEEK #4
American Ballet Theatre / Metropolitan Opera House, NYC / May 10 – July 3, 2004 I know Raymonda—Petipa, Glazounov, 1898—is a hokey ballet. Still the dance world can’t leave it alone, its strictly classical variations, pas de deux, and small-group-of-soloists configurations being dazzling—incomparable, actually, and a veritable lexicon of the danse d’école—its score so full […]
Margot Fonteyn in America: A Celebration
A lovely intimate exhibition . . . The entire room seems filled with the fragrance of roses. Village Voice 5/20/04
BALLET GALORE: WEEK #3
American Ballet Theatre / Metropolitan Opera House, NYC / May 10 – July 3, 2004 New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, NYC / April 27 – June 29, 2004 AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: GALA American Ballet Theatre’s opening night gala was a model of good taste. The company’s well-heeled supporters, definitely part of […]
New York Theatre Ballet
Frederick Ashton’s 1930 “Capriol Suite,” a gloss on 16th-century dance forms, mingles peasants and aristocrats, lusty ebullience and aloof grace, easy charm and stabs of poignant imagination. Village Voice 5/14/04
John Ollom
They say everyone has one novel in him. It’s the fruit of a life’s experience–the tale, the feelings. John Ollom certainly does, but he happens to be a choreographer. Village Voice 5/14/04
Company Rindfleisch
Slow, subdued, and handsome, Elke Rindfleisch’s “Enamoured” traces the vagaries of relationships–amorous and the inevitable opposite. Village Voice 5/14/04
BALLET GALORE: WEEK #2
New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, NYC / April 27 – June 29, 2004 Following are comments on the highlights of the second week in the New York City Ballet’s spring season, Part II of the company’s Balanchine 100: The Centennial Celebration. LIEBESLIEDER WALZER Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer, created in 1960 and given […]
Tanzmoto
Mohan C. Thomas had the maverick idea of melding Sufi dervish spinning with Latin American dance forms and rhythms. Village Voice 5/10/04
Lyon Opera Ballet
In Philippe Decoufle’s “Tricodex” a wheeled wooden frame creates a proscenium evoking stages of yore; in and around it old-fashioned feats of balance and flying seem to be caught in gaslight illuminating the dark. Village Voice 5/4/04