Dance
Most of the piece was carefully engineered; it seemed more calculated than liberated
Boston Ballet’s reconstructed versions of Yakobson’s Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.
A fascinating documentary in which you get both a Paul Taylor dance and the making of the dance.
“It was a dream of mine for many years to present the very best Asian dancers such as Cloud Gate for our audience and for dancers in the Pioneer Valley.”
Perhaps there’s no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological.
Zoë Anderson’s volume aims to give readers a handy way to discern the most influential ballets from among the confusing proliferation that we find in today’s repertory.
Monchichi is about relationships but focused on this particular relationship, in which affection and intimacy and joy and sometimes frustration exist.
“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.
Dance Commentary: Is Dance Criticism Dead?
Neither dancers nor the dance audience are out on the barricades demanding more and better dance coverage.
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