This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on October 28, 2005. Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — American Ballet Theatre, at the halfway mark of its three-week City Center season, has added two worthy revivals to its already rich active repertory. Anthony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” and Twyla Tharp’s “In the Upper Room” were […]
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ABT’S `KALEIDOSCOPE’ SHOWS OFF NEW CHOREOGRAPHER, PETER QUANZ
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on October 24, 2005. Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Lovers of classical dance complain, rightly, about the dearth of compelling new choreography. American Ballet Theatre just gave them reason to hope. Last Thursday, on the second night of its three-week season at New York’s City […]
ABT STARTS NEW SEASON WITH EXQUISITE `FAUN,’ TENDER `RODEO’
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on October 20, 2005. Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Jerome Robbins’s exquisite 10-minute duet “Afternoon of a Faun” and a revival of Agnes de Mille’s exuberant 1942 “Rodeo” opened American Ballet Theatre’s three-week season last night, offering an auspicious start to the company’s fall run […]
BOY MEETS GIRL MEETS FAUN
This article originally appeared in the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times on October 16, 2005. THE first vision to greet viewers at the Oct. 19 opening of American Ballet Theater’s three-week season at the City Center will be what the program calls ”a room with a mirror.” It is Jean Rosenthal’s […]
DANCING AS FAST, AND AS TIGHTLY, AS SHE CAN
This article originally appeared in the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times on July 31, 2005. Montclair, N.J. SUSAN MARSHALL is putting the finishing touches on her new work, five brief dances sheltering under the umbrella title “Cloudless,” to have its premiere this week at Jacob’s Pillow. At least the rehearsal schedule […]
BEGINNING & ENDING
This will be my last word in SEEING THINGS, at least for now. Two new ventures have opened up for me, and I can’t afford to turn them down. I’ve become the New York-based dance critic for Bloomberg News, and I’ve begun contributing regularly to the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times. […]
MOVING AROUND NEW YORK
The Martha Graham Dance Company will be at the Joyce Theater, NYC, September 11-23, with a repertory that includes works central to the Graham canon. To me, though, the 1981 “Acts of Light,” which opens with a stylized version of a class in the Graham technique, comes nowhere near the grit and ecstasy of the real thing, described in the “Class” section of my essay “Moving Around New York.”
VERSATILITY REIGNS
David Hallberg, dancing with American Ballet Theatre / City Center, NYC / October 19 – November 6 When I first got addicted to ballet, type casting prevailed. The men naturally selected to play Princes (Swan Lake’s Siegfried, Giselle’s Albrecht) were as tall, handsome, and harmoniously proportioned creatures as a company’s roster could provide, their […]
MY OTHER LIFE
My most recent book for children, WISHES FOR YOU, with pictures by the celebrated Danish illustrator Henri Sorensen, has just been issued by HarperCollins Children’s Books in a paperback edition. It makes a wonderful present for very young children–and for their parents, grandparents, and other well-wishers. The book can be ordered, in either hardcover or […]
RESURRECTIONS
Bolshoi Ballet / Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NYC / July 18-30, 2005 Of the four program-length productions the Bolshoi Ballet brought to New York, only Don Quixote, discussed in my Tilting At Windmills, sports choreography that you might term traditional—stretches in which you can recognize Marius Petipa’s diamond-brilliant designs. I suppose you might call […]