Kaori Nakamura as Valencienne and Christopher Maraval as Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow. Angela Sterling, courtesy Pacific Northwest Ballet Pacific Northwest Ballet Mercer Arts Arena Seattle, Washington September 26?October 5, 2002 Reviewed by Gigi Berardi Pacific Northwest Ballet’s thirtieth-season opener was a glamorous rendition of The Merry Widow?beautiful not just in the company’s […]
Hamburg Ballet staged The Seagull. Courtesy Hamburg Ballet Hamburg Ballet Hamburg State Opera Hamburg, Germany June 16, 2002 Reviewed by Horst Koegler Two years ago, after having securely established his company’s Russian repertoire base with The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty, Hamburg Ballet Director John Neumeier extended it with his full-length biopic Nijinsky, considered […]
The Royal Ballet finally danced John Cranko’s Onegin. Simon Magill, courtesy Royal Opera House Press Office Royal Ballet Royal Opera House, Covent Garden November 22, 2001 Reviewed by Margaret Willis John Cranko’s powerful masterpiece Onegin, based on the verse-novel by Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, has finally taken its rightful place in the Royal […]
Sydney Dance Company Joyce Theater New York, New York November 28?December 3, 2000 Reviewed by Marilyn Hunt Graeme Murphy?s Air and other invisible forces has a split personality. Murphy offers a range of emotions behind his title theme by dividing the evening into lighter and darker halves. But the second part of the ninety-minute performance […]
November performance of 33 Fainting Spells’ September, September. Photo by Peter Mumford courtesy 33 Fainting Spells 33 Fainting Spells The Moore Theatre Seattle, Washington November 10�11, 2000 Reviewed by Gigi Berardi 33 Fainting Spells�s newest work, September, September, is a fast-paced showcase of fresh, clean and deliberate movement�well rehearsed, but with a welcome edge of […]
CaDance Festival Korzo Theater, Theater aan het Spui The Hague, Netherlands November 8?25, 2000 Reviewed by Helma Klooss The residential city of The Hague houses, besides the Netherlands Dance Theater, two important dance festivals: the Holland Dance Festival, coming up November 2001, and CaDance, with which it alternates years. CaDance celebrated its tenth anniversary in […]
ODC/San Francisco dancers Brian Fisher, Heather Tietsort, Shannon Mitchell. Photo by RJ Muna ODC/San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, California April 20?30, 2000 Reviewed by Rita Felciano The highlights of ODC/San Francisco?s Dancing Downtown series were three premieres, each of which imparted its own shot of adrenaline to the three programs. […]
Roland Petit’s Carmen with Ana Lobé and Norbert Nirewicz. Photo by John Gerbetz, courtesy of SJCB San Jose Cleveland Ballet San Jose Center for the Performing Arts San Jose, California February 24?27, 2000 Reviewed by Rachel Howard The question of how the San Jose Cleveland Ballet won permission to perform Roland Petit’s notoriously difficult-to-acquire Carmen […]
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