Michael Pink’s reworking of Giselle for Milwaukee Ballet may not be the most farfetched distortion of the Romantic classic. But Pink’s setting of the ballet in a 1940’s Jewish ghetto, policed by armed guards, and the mass execution of ghetto inhabitants, who then resurrect as zombie-like Wilis in white pyjamas, …
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San Francisco Ballet unleashed 24-year-old corps dancer Myles Thatcher’s latest creation on a wildly enthusiastic audience on February 24th – an audience that included dance world luminaries William Forsythe and Natalia Makarova, whose work was also on display in a decidedly mixed bill.…
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Ballet San Jose danced their heart out last month in a dazzling, ambitious program of iconic American works by Balanchine, Robbins and Tharp, of which we wrote:
… Read more →The company, with an infusion of new, youthful talent from Cuba, China, and points beyond – imported by the charismatic José Manuel
Did you catch the HD broadcast of the Royal Ballet’s A Winter’s Tale, with the magnificent Ed Watson, Lauren Cuthbertson, and Zenaida Yanowsky? Click here for our “bite-size” review on Twitter.…
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… Read more →Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a concussion sport.
– Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers