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Swan-Lake

Dance Review: Swans’ Return at Boston Ballet

Even the hippest of us can succumb to a deep longing for harmony, lush orchestration, and magic.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Boston-Ballet, Marcia B. Siegel, Mikko Nissinen, Misa Kuranaga, Russian ballet, Swan-Lake

Dance Review: Dada Masilo’s “Swan Lake” — An Entertainment Full of Heart and Art

South African choreographer Dada Masilo goes even further into the Swan Lake fantasy: here, the characters, men and women, are all swans.

By: Janine Parker Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Dada Masilo, Dance Factory Johannesburg, Janine Parker, South Africa, Swan-Lake, The Joyce Theater

Dance Commentary: Misty Copeland, Ballet, and Race

Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: American Ballet Theatre, ballet, Ballet West, Boston-Ballet, CityDance, Janine Parker, Misty Copeland, race, Swan-Lake

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

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.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Boston-Ballet, Mikko Nissinen, Robert Perdziola, Swan-Lake

Book Review: A Cinematic Russian Winter (Updated)

Russian Winter is part mystery and part love story, drawing on the (overly) familiar tropes of each: the missing jewels, the deceived lovers, and so on. The material is not original, but it is workable and proffers plenty of Hollywood glamor. Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay. Harper Perennial, 496 pages, $14.99. By Nora Delany It […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Daphne Kalotay, fiction, Russia, Russian Winter, Swan-Lake

Dance Review: Swan King

By Debra Cash From the hype, you’d think that ten years ago British choreographer/director Matthew Bourne was the first person to develop a post-Freudian “Swan Lake” or cross-dress a ballet production, and you’d be wrong. You’d be right, however, to call Matthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake” a phenomenon. In 1996-97 the work became the longest running […]

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Mattew-Bourne, Swan-Lake

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