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 Volume 2, Number 25   July 5,  2004            The weekly online supplement to DanceView magazine


In this issue:

New! Mindy Aloff reviews the Wedding Bouquet and Dante Sonata

New! Mindy Aloff reviews the Ashton Celebration's Opening Night

New! David Vaughan on Ethan Brown's Retirement performance (in ABT's "Romeo and Juliet" Saturday)

Special Ashton Celebration Preview section

From New York:

Mindy Aloff's Letter from New York covers Amanda McKerrow's Juliet (ABT's "Romeo and Juliet") and an interview with Universal Ballet Company's Julia Moon

ABT's Spring season coverage continues:
2 casts in "Romeo and Juliet" reviewed by Susan Reiter and Leigh Witchel. Ethan Brown's farewell performance to come.

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Mindy Aloff's
Letter from New York




Amanda McKerrow’s Juliet at ABT

Interview: Julia Moon, The Universal Ballet








Read past Letters


New York City Ballet's
Spring Season

is over.

Those in withdrawal may wish to read, or reread, our reviews of NYCB's 2003-2004 season


Reposted from last week's midweek editions:

Pacific Northwest Ballet School
Before There Was After




by Sandi Kurtz




Reposted from last week's midweek editions:

Complexions
High Energy Frenzy




by Susan Reiter









 


Special Section
(background on ballets, Ashton, Links, more)

Lincoln Center Festival
Ashton Celebration

New!
Comedy, Dark and Divine

(Program II: "A Wedding Bouquet," "Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan," "Dante Sonata," and "Rhapsody")

 




by Mindy Aloff









A Crowd-Pleaser, a Moonwalk, and a Stunning "Enigma": the Ashton Celebration Opens





by Mindy Aloff






Inside:

"Looking at Ashton" by Bruce Sansom
"Enigma Variations" by Mary Cargill
"The Right Giants" by Alexandra Tomalonis
background information on the ballets, Links, more
!

Note: the Celebration opens July 6, and DanceView Times will review every program. Please check back through the week for new material!!


American Ballet Theatre's Spring Season

"Romeo and Juliet"

A Passionate New Pairing
Alessandra Ferri and Angel Corella





by Susan Reiter

 




A Headstrong Juliet
Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky




by Leigh Witchel





Ethan Brown's Retirement




by David Vaughan





See Mindy Aloff's Letter from New York this week for a review of Amanda McKerrow and Ethan Stiefel's "Romeo and Juliet."

Links to ABT spring season reviews


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Mary Cargill
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Reviving Pillar of Fire
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Lynn Garafola
Neumeier’s Nijinsky

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Paul Taylor at City Center, Noh at the Japan Society, Stephen Petronio at the Joyce

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