Boston-Ballet

Dance Review: American Ballet Theatre’s Eye-Popper of a “Sleeping Beauty”

June 17, 2015
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Few companies can do pageantry quite like ABT, buoyed by its vast resources as well as on this occasion the company’s desire to celebrate its 75th anniversary with panache.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Play With Music

May 17, 2015
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Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Edge of Vision” — Cascades

May 2, 2015
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The three choreographers used the streams of sound as an opportunity to provide floods of movement challenges to the terrific dancers of the company.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Shades of Sound” — Energetic Versatility

March 24, 2015
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Each piece is so different from the others in Shades of Sound that the evening provides something for everyone, giving the company a chance to showcase its phenomenal technique.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — A Respectable “Lady of the Camellias”

February 28, 2015
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What I didn’t see opening night was passion. The characters, all living on the edge of respectability, are comfortable in their own world, but as individuals most of them don’t assert themselves.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake” – A Reverent Visit into the World of Renaissance European Fairy Tale

November 4, 2014
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If you know Swan Lake, there will be few structural surprises. Girl turned into swan, prince falls in love, prince gets fooled, they both feel really terrible, and die.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Pricked” — Building Blocks

May 12, 2014
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Carrying cacti around the stage in boxes and placing them on their heads and in predictably suggestive positions, the Boston Ballet dancers looked like they were having a blast

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Dance Commentary: Learn to Love Something By Doing It, or How I joined Le Grand Continental and Discovered the World of Dance

May 11, 2014
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I hope thousands of people show up to see Le Grand Continental-Boston next weekend. Not to see me, but to see how dance can change the way we appreciate our world.

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Dance Review: If the Shoe Fits — Boston Ballet’s “Cinderella”

March 17, 2014
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Boston Ballet is showcasing a number of its ballerinas in the title role of Cinderella.

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Dance Feature: Boston Ballet’s “Close to Chuck”

March 1, 2014
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Surrounded by the gilded ornamentation of the Boston Opera house, the three minimalist pieces that make up “Close to Chuck” could not be any more of a contrast.

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