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Volume 5, Number 21 - May 28, 2007

this week's reviews

NYCB's Spring Season
A Greek Trilogy
"Apollo," "Orpheus," "Agon"

reviewed by Leigh Witchel

Essential Balanchine
“Walpurgisnacht Ballet”, “Liebeslieder Walzer”, “Symphony in Three Movements”

reviewed by Mary Cargill

ABT's Spring Met Season

"Othello"

reviewed by Leigh Witchel

"Symphonie Concertante" and "The Dream"
reviewed by Susan Reiter

London Letter
Enterprise from Tomasson, A different Swan, Disappointing Rambert
by John Percival

San Francisco Letter 29
San Francisco International Arts Festival
by Rita Felciano

Esperanto for Dummies:
Doug Varone's "Dense Terrain"

by Lisa Rinehart

Christopher Caines Dance Company
by Susan Reiter

Letters and Commentary

London Letter
Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal and English National Ballets
announce their seasons

by John Percival

San Francisco Letter 26
San Francisco Ballet: Programs 6 and 7

by Rita Felciano

Letter from London
Henri Oguike Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance Company

by John Percival

Letter from Copenhagen
Nikolaj Hübbe to take over his parent company

by Eva Kistrup

did you miss any of these?

ABT Spring Met Season Opens
Passion! Betrayal! Murder! Revenge! "La Bayadere" is Back!
Veronika Part, Marcelo Gomes, Michele Wiles
reviewed by Susan Reiter
Diana Vishneva, Ethan Stiefel, Stella Abrera
reviewed by Michael Popkin
Paloma Herrera, David Hallberg, Gillian Murphy
reviewed by Lisa Rinehart

New York City Ballet's Spring Season — Back to Repertory!
Four Voices
"Carousel (A Dance)," "Middle Duet," "Moves," "La Sonnambula"

reviewed by Leigh Witchel
Tschaikovsky Evening
“Mozartiana,” “Piano  Pieces,” “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2”

reviewed by Michael Popkin

A New "Sacre du printemps" in Copenhagen
by Eva Kistrup

The Bolshoi's "Don Quixote" in Munich
by Marc Haegeman

David Gordon's "Dancing Henry Five"
by Ann Murphy

A Manassas “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
by George Jackson

 

 



New York City Ballet's Spring Season

A Greek Trilogy
"Apollo," "Orpheus," "Agon"

reviewed by Leigh Witchel

Essential Balanchine
“Walpurgisnacht Ballet”, “Liebeslieder Walzer”, “Symphony in Three Movements”

reviewed by Mary Cargill

 


ABT's Spring Met Season


"Othello"
reviewed by Leigh Witchel

"Symphonie Concertante" and "The Dream"
reviewed by Susan Reiter

 

 

 

 


London Letter
Enterprise from Tomasson, A different Swan, Disappointing Rambert
by John Percival

Invited to a meeting with Helgi Tomasson at a London hotel, of course we hoped he was going to tell us about a London season next year to celebrate 75 years of ballet in San Francisco, but no such luck — although happily he did say that negotiations are in progress for the San Francisco Ballet to play at Sadler's Wells in 2009. It seems that the company's touring in 2008 will take it to four American destinations: Chicago, New York, Orange County and Washington DC. So what Tomasson most wanted was to suggest that we visit SF next April when his New Works Festival will offer ten world premieres in three days. Sounds interesting. READ MORE


San Francisco Letter
San Francisco International Arts Festival

by Rita Felciano

If the rest of this year’s San Francisco International Arts Festival’s other guests brought works as vital and as beautifully performed as the debut presentations by dancers from Africa, the Festival should become a major hit in the years to come. But San Franciscans have yet to find out about it. Audiences at both “Dance En Creations” programs that I attended were sparse; the artists for the most part deserved better. READ MORE

 


Esperanto for Dummies:
Doug Varone's "Dense Terrain"

by Lisa Rinehart

Doug Varone's "Dense Terrain" maps desolate territory. It's an emotionally vacant piece that could dissuade even a hard core New Yorker from renting that grimy studio apartment they've got their eye on — or, at least, send them to the nearest Starbucks for some cozy conversation. This is surprising given that "Dense Terrain" is, like many of Varone's dances, about connecting, or, trying to connect, and what topic is more emotionally fraught? But amidst of pallet of grunge greys, Varone gets bogged down by arcane ideas and technical silliness unrelated to the movement and drains the life from this slick vivisection of psychosis and frustrated relationships. READ MORE


Christopher Caines Dance Company
by Susan Reiter

Everything about Christopher Caines’ enterprise bespeaks meticulousness and earnestness of purpose. His choreography is deeply intertwined with its musical inspiration, and he selects — and analyzes — his scores carefully and diligently. Unfortunately, a quality of airlessness marked portions of this presentation, an evening of two new works set to Mozart chamber music scores. READ MORE

 

 

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