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Brahms graces the ballet
23 May 2012, 10:00 pm
New York City Ballet got its Brahms on with two great performances Tuesday night. “Liebeslieder Walzer” is an acknowledged Balanchine masterpiece — the surprise was how good “Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet” looked. The latter is a big, Busby Berkeley-ish number in which Balanchine showed his skill at moving the corps in kaleidoscopic patterns...
The Fashions and Passions of City Ballet: From the Sublime to the Inconsequential
22 May 2012, 4:02 pm
Balanchine's "Liebeslieder Walzer." (Courtesy Paul Kolnik/City Ballet) New York City Ballet’s spring gala came and went, as galas will do, and left behind two unnecessary new ballets plus new costumes for Symphony in C , that Balanchine masterpiece to Bizet, that has been absent from the repertory for four years or so, God knows why. It’s true that the Karinska costumes, which some of us have ...
Theater review: Come Fly Away
3 May 2012, 10:03 am
If your comfort zone lies securely within the confines of traditional Broadway book musicals, or if your standards of choreographic plenitude are shaped by the programs and exploits of North Carolina Dance Theatre, three words of advice about Come Fly Away , currently at Belk Theater: Do stay away. On the other hand, if you're absolutely besotted by Dancing With the Stars - or mildly curious ...
S-s-s-steam heat and swordplay: Dangerous Liaisons
1 May 2012, 7:58 am
Suspense leads to satisfaction by Perry Tannenbaum Suspense built steadily last Thursday at Knight Theater as we awaited the world premiere of Sasha Janes's Dangerous Liaisons. Had the former principal-dancer-turned-choreographer at North Carolina Dance Theatre overreached in attempting to distill the intricate epistolary De Laclos novel into a mere 50 minutes?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the ...
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Lisa McCune's star is still shining - heraldsun.com.au
25 May 2012, 8:48 am
Though she says she is moving beyond the age limit for "
soubrette" roles (girlish, coquettish/coy stock young female characters), McCune says much appeals to her about the role of Nellie, a young nurse stationed at a US naval base during World War II.
Brahms graces the ballet - New York Post
23 May 2012, 9:50 pm
Unfurling her leg, Wendy Whelan glided forward as if swimming through ether. The new couple is Ashley Bouder and Tyler Angle, a
soubrette and a matinee idol who complemented one another beautifully. She leapt into a polka with him, swept away by the ...
The World is Falstaff's Oyster - Wall Street Journal
17 May 2012, 5:04 pm
Fenton (Puerto Rican-Spanish tenor Joel Prieto), the unsuitable suitor for the hand of the
soubrette Nannetta (American soprano Amanda Forsythe), is, ingeniously, a waiter. These three singers stand out vocally, in casting that is uniformly fine ...
