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American Ballet Theatre Lady of the Camellias Metropolitan Opera House, NYC May 25–June 7, 2010 Reviewed by Rose Anne Thom   Julie Kent and Roberto Bolle as Marguerite and Armand. Photo by Gene Schiavone, courtesy ABT.   What a perfect subject for a ballet is Marguerite Gautier, the tragic heroine of Alexandre Dumas, fils’, La […]

There’s a hint of abandon in the way Parisa Khobdeh dances. Her movement has a free and easy quality. The steps seem to flow effortlessly, as though she’d heard the music for the first time and couldn’t stop dancing. Her elegantly chiseled features become animated as she performs, and her joy seems infectious. “She makes […]

Performing overseas is more than an adventure. For these dancers, it means personal, artistic, and financial breaks.     To launch her career, Isadora Duncan sailed for Europe in search of audiences who could appreciate her work and producers who could enable her to do it. In Paris she encountered Loïe Fuller, another expatriate who […]

Frederick Ashton’s ballets remain scarce in the repertoires of most American companies. That makes American Ballet Theatre’s U.S. premiere of his full-length Sylvia this month particularly welcome. Believed lost for more than 50 years, the reconstruction opened to enthusiastic reviews last fall at The Royal Ballet as part of its Ashton centenary celebrations. “It’s Ashton’s […]

Paris Opera Ballet Palais Garnier, Paris, France November 10–18, 2006 Review by Karyn Bauer-Prévost Clairemarie Osta and Mathieu Ganio of Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris in Benjamin Millepied’s Amoveo Photo by Anne Deniau, courtesy Paris Opéra Ballet “Ambitious” and “poetic” were words used to describe New York City Ballet’s Benjamin Millepied when he made […]

Paloma Herrera in Le Corsaire Photo by Gene Schiavone, courtesy ABT American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY May 23–July 16, 2005 Reviewed by Clive Barnes   The gala marking the opening of American Ballet Theatre’s spring season (and this year the company’s 65th anniversary), for all its glamour, remained essentially a family […]

Christopher Wheeldon’s latest work is a retelling of Mexican author Laura Esquivel’s magical-realist novel Like Water for Chocolate, portraying the intense­, doomed love between Pedro and Tita, a young woman who pours her unrequited emotions into her cooking.

What does it actually involve to be a swing in a musical? These performers cover up to a dozen ensemble parts (and sometimes principal characters) in a musical, and take the stage whenever one of those cast members cannot perform because of illness, injury or vacation.