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 Volume 2, Number 21  June 8,  2004            The weekly online supplement to DanceView magazine


In this issue:

Wheeldon's new Swan Lake for Pennsylvania Ballet

From Moscow:
Alexandrova's Kitri at the Bolshoi

From Berkeley:
Ballet Frankfurt

ABT's Spring season coverage continues:
reviews of Raymonda, Don Quixote, the Balanchine program

NYCB's Spring season coverage continues:
Robbins-Bernstein-Martins program
2 new Martins ballets
SAB Workshop

From D.C.
Dance Theatre of Harlem
National College Choreography Initiative

From Philadelphia:
Group Motion Dance Company
Regional Dance America Northeast

New!  Photos of Veronika Part and Maxim Belotserkovsky in Mozartiana and Monique Meunier in Ballet Imperial

 


Mindy Aloff's
Letter from New York

will be back next week. While you're waiting, read past Letters

 


Alexandrova's Kitri
at the Bolshoi




by Marc Haegeman






American Ballet Theatre's Spring Season

Catching Up with ABT
Raymonda, Ballet Imperial, Don Quixote

 

by David Vaughan

 

 



Nina Ananiashvili:
An Exemplary Raymonda

 

by Mary Cargill

 




Links to prior spring season reviews:

ABT's Season Opens With a Sizzling Gala
May 11, 2004; Susan Reiter
Ananiashvili: Dancing Like a Dream in ABT's La Bayadère
May 17, 2004; Gay Morris
Michele Wiles: Getting to the Heart of Hagar
May 17, 2004; Susan Reiter
Roberta Marquez: a Tiny, Proud Nikiya
May 17, 2004; Mary Cargill
Svetlana Zakharova in La Bayadère
May 24, 2004; Mindy Aloff
A Pretty, Light Raymonda
May 24, 2004; Kate Mattingly
Refreshing Raymonda
May 24, 2004; Mary Cargill
ABT's Salute to Balanchine: the Babel Effect
May 31, 2004; Leigh Witchel
The Return of Part and Meunier
May 31, 2004; Susan Reiter

A World a Part
May 31, 2004; Mary Cargill


Group Motion Dance Company
Beyond Time




by
Lisa Traiger





Regional Dance America's Northeast Festival
Regional Isn't Always Provincial






by George Jackson






 

 

 

Pennsylvania Ballet:
Christopher Wheeldon
's
New Swan Lake

Cloudless Skies






by Mary Cargill







In the Realm of Ideas




by George Jackson





Ballet Frankfurt at Berkeley

Weird and Wonderful Moves




by Paul Parish






Dance Theatre of Harlem

At Home in Balanchine





by Alexandra Tomalonis




New York City Ballet's
Spring Season

Robbins-Bernstein-Martins: America




by Leigh Witchel







reprinted from last week's midweek extra:

A Different Faith
Martins' Chichester Psalms and Eros Piano




by Mindy Aloff






Links to prior spring season reviews:

Etoiles, Imported and Home Grown
April 26, 2004;p Mary Cargill
A Meaty, Varied Program
May 3, 2004; Susan Reiter
Liebeslieder Walzer; as good as it gets
May 3, 2004; Mindy Aloff
Treats at the Ballet
May 3, 2004; Meital Waibsnaider
Real Time: Live from Lincoln Center
May 10, 2004; Nancy Dalva
NYCB's Evening in Vienna: Some Stunning Debuts
May 10, 2004; Leigh Witchel
A Splendid Four Temperaments
May 10, 2004; Mary Cargill
Wheeldon's Blood-drenched Reels
May 10, 2004; Mindy Aloff
Brick to Brown
May 17, 2004; Mary Cargill
Guest Performance: Ballo della Regina
May 17, 2004; Mindy Aloff
Weese's Sophisticated Charm in La Source
May 24, 2004; Susan Reiter
Matters of Temperament
May 24, 2004; Mary Cargill
Romantics Sour and Sweet
May 24, 2004; Leigh Witchel
Early Fireworks
May 31, 2004; Mary Cargill
Americans We
May 31, 2004; Leigh Witchel
Fleet's In
May 31, 2004; Susan Reiter
I'm Old Fashioned
May 31, 2004; Mindy Aloff


SAB Workshop





by Susan Reiter






National College Choreography Initiative
Celebrating University Dance





by Kathrine Sorley Walker




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Reviving Pillar of Fire
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The Sleeping Beauty
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Mary Cargill
An Interview with Jonathan Riedel

Lynn Garafola
Neumeier’s Nijinsky

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