Boston-Ballet

Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “rEVOLUTION” — The Art of Evolution

March 4, 2020
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Boston Ballet’s rEVOLUTION is memorable because of its duel commitment: it is both enormously entertaining as well as edifying.

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Dance Review: “Giselle” Now — at the Boston Ballet

October 1, 2019
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The performance I saw on Friday night revealed Boston Ballet’s priorities: while the dancers possess a high degree of technical skills, they have a looser notion of nuanced acting.

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Dance Review: “Full on Forsythe” — Revolutionary

March 12, 2019
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William Forsythe asks dancers to go beyond their mastery of technique — in order to have the music move audiences to a higher level of emotional involvement.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Time After Time

September 10, 2018
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Jerome Robbins makes me think about how nonverbal characters can inhabit their times.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Dancing in Time

May 28, 2018
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La Sylphide is full of magic. It might be about magic.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — The Whole Enchilada

May 15, 2018
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Sleeping Beauty needs not only to thrill us but to carry us somewhere back into its own history.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet – Revisiting

March 12, 2018
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What a treat to see choreographers of different generations concentrating on ballet itself and asking the audience to appreciate what ballet can do.

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Dance Review: Classical Plus at Boston Ballet

November 7, 2017
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The Boston Ballet’s program was meant as a tribute to the 100th anniversary of Finnish independence.

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Dance Review: Classical, Three Ways, at Boston Ballet

May 10, 2017
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All of three of these ballets adapted the classical vocabulary and demonstrated that constant evolution is what keeps classicism alive.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Kylián/ Wings of Wax”

March 26, 2017
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Kylián’s astute choice of musical selections helped gave a structural shape to “Wings of Wax.”

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