Dance Magazine‘s annual look at who’s new and breaking through in 2006. Powerhouse Cricket Because he jumps higher and quicker than anyone alive, hip hop and underground house dancer James P. Colter is nicknamed “Cricket.” A fearless capoeirista, Cricket bounces across the stage, launching his small, compact body into flight and flipping off […]
Today more dancers than ever rely on agents to get auditions, guest appearances, and tours. When classically-trained Kim Craven showed up to audition for talent agency Kazarian/Spencer & Associates in Los Angeles, she had on the standard uniform of her profession: leotard, tights, and a French twist. Perfectly respectable, very Freed of London. At […]
Last August, Los Angeles Times dance critic Lewis Segal published a diatribe titled “Five Things I Hate About Ballet.” Although his approach was somewhat clumsy—like the guy at a family reunion who drinks too much and blurts out why he hates his relatives—he brought up a number of debatable issues that prompted a response from […]
In this version, Prince Siegfried falls in love with Odette at night, when she is still a maiden, and he witnesses her dawn transformation into a swan at the hands of the vengeful Rothbart. (Much use is made of his billowing cape.) As a girl, Odette wears a long, white gown, and the flowing partnering […]
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 […]
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 […]
Miami City Ballet Tilles Center Long Island, New York April 20, 2001 Reviewed by Clive Barnes George Balanchine was much more than the twentieth century?s greatest classic choreographer. Just eighteen years after his death his ballets are still everywhere?but more important still, so are his disciples and protégés. I caught performances by companies headed by […]
American Ballet Theatre: Seven Faces of Giselle Metropolitan Opera House New York, New York April 26-June 19,1999 Reviewed by Henning Rübsam Seven ballerinas performed the romantic tale of Giselle; just as individual as the shades of blue for their first-act dress was their palette of characterizations, which ranged from pale to the iridescence of Alessandra […]
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