Royal Danish Ballet’s Silk & Knife: Jirí Kylián Unlimited Old Stage, Copenhagen, Denmark October 27–November 27, 2007 Reviewed by Gunild Pak Symes With an irreverent wink and some cheeky theatrical deception, Kylián read the audiences of Denmark just right and gave them what they thought they wanted in wheelbarrows this fall with Silk & Knife. […]
The judges of the New York International Ballet Competition did something unprecedented in 2003. They awarded a prize to a dancer they had already eliminated. Kathleen Breen Combes, a 21-year-old dancer with Washington Ballet, and her partner Jonathan Jordan were the first to perform the Bournonville duet that was taught to all participants. During […]
Houston Ballet in The Four Seasons Wortham Theater Center, Houston, Texas September 20–30, 2007 Reviewed by Theodore Bale “If I hear that music again today, I’m going to scream,” my mother said once while we were shopping in a mall for Christmas gifts. She meant Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a score that has become as exhausted […]
Sarah Lane could be the smallest girl American Ballet Theatre has ever hired into the corps. Yet neither height nor technique are the first thing you notice about this vibrant 20-year-old. Instead your eye goes to her open upper body, breathtaking line, and strong, solid center. Even in corps roles—like the peasants in Swan Lake […]
In Jennifer Tipton’s hands, light is a living thing. Her designs have illuminated, both physically and metaphorically, the works of Paul Taylor, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor, Jiri Kylian, and most recently, Christopher Wheeldon. Her range is extraordinary, from lighting the striped figures who dance through smoke in Tharp’s high energy In […]
Five couples who span the dance world from ballet to hip hop to modern share studio time, performances, and their love for dance – along with household chores and a deep commitment to each other. Each has a unique story about how dance brought them together and keeps their marriage strong. ABT’s Soul Mates: Stella […]
For Cheryl Mann, it was a typical night of performing with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Things got off to a rousing start with Daniel Ezralow’s SF/LB, a burst of perpetual motion and tricky counterpoint set to a jazzy Leonard Bernstein score. Then came the world premiere of Lar Lubovitch’s Love Stories, in which Mann had […]
Matthew Neenan is decked out in the ballet finery of a 19th- century European prince, but something very contemporary and intercultural is going on. His stage is the concrete courtyard of a Philadelphia public school, and his court is a pick-up group of inner-city youth. While they teach Neenan to boogey “Philly style,” he teaches […]
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