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Dance Review: ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET (on tour at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge)
FINDING HAPPINESS IN DANCE Just before Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s (ASFB) program, Valley Performing Arts Center’s Executive Director Thor Steingraber announced that the outfit was signed to be in residence for two more years. Based on last night’s offering, the company’s second visit here, I hope to see much more of this 20-year-old company. Even with a world…
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Dance Preview: CHORÉ (Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa)
A HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT In 1993, H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover appointed Jean-Christophe Maillot as the head of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Backed by his experience as a dancer under Rosella Hightower and Hamburg Ballet’s John Neumeier, Maillot – the previous choreographer-director of the National Choreographic Centre of Tours – has since…
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Dance Review: ALADDIN (Houston Ballet at Auditorium Theatre)
ABRACADABRA! In a welcome and overdue debut at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre this weekend, Houston Ballet offers only two performances of their sumptuous three-act ballet Aladdin, an Arabian night choreographed to an inch of its life by David Bintley. (Originally created for the New National Ballet of Japan in Tokyo in 2008, it premiered in London…
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Dance Review: GISELLE (Royal New Zealand Ballet)
GISELLE’S GAZELLES First staged in 1841, Giselle is one of the oldest surviving ballets still in the international repertory, especially because the lead role is a showcase for the world’s leading prima ballerinas. Since its inception, the Romantic story ballet had several revisions, but most companies follow Marius Petipa’s fin de siècle version. The North…
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Chicago Dance Review: ONE THOUSAND PIECES (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
LIGHT BECOMES MOVEMENT: THE AMERICA WINDOWS BURST INTO BEING Following its world debut last year as a “gift to the city” (gratefully accepted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, also in attendance for its revival last night), One Thousand Pieces pays its respects to The America Windows. Now a Chicago landmark, these are the Art Institute’s now famous…
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Dance Review: THE JOFFREY BALLET’S LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (Reconstructed Version at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles)
THE RITE OF JOFFREY One hundred years ago, a new ballet took place in Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This highly controversial work – for both its music and choreography – would revolutionize dance and thrust ballet and classical music into the modern era. As if the avant-garde nature of the dance was not enough to…
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Chicago Dance Feature: ONE THOUSAND PIECES (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
PIECES OF FATE There is quite a bit of buzz surrounding Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s One Thousand Pieces, which will commence the company’s 35th season. Inspired by Chagall’s masterpiece, America Windows, Madrid-born resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo is creating his first full-length dance program, which happens also to be HSDC’s first full-evening presentation by a single…
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Film Review: JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE (directed by Bob Hercules)
THE ART OF MAKING ART In economically troubled times such as these, many artistic directors are vainly attempting to figure out how their output can be remunerative. Instead of presenting a bold concept to audiences, artistic directors (and many other disciplinary artists) seem to be relying on proven methods of the past in order to…
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