In this issue:

The Ashton Celebration ends:
3 different casts of "Cinderella" reviewed (by Mindy Aloff, Susan Reiter, and Mary Cargill)

AND

if you didn't check us during the week, see the three "Scenes de ballet"/divertissements/"Marguerite and Armand" reviews (by Mindy Aloff, Mary Cargill and Leigh Witchel)

In other news:

Mindy Aloff's Letter from New York concerns Mikhail Baryshnikov in "Forbidden Christmas"

Clare Croft reviews Shen Wei

Rita Felciano reviews "The Water Bearers" from San Francisco

Lisa Traiger reviews Provincial Dance Theater and Kinetic, from ADF's Russian Festival

Marc Haegeman reviews Paris Opera Ballet's "La Sylphide"

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Mindy Aloff's
Letter from New York

Forbidden Christmas, Or The Doctor and the Patient

Read past Letters

Paris Opera Ballet's "La Sylphide":
Spiritless Sylphs, But a Fine New James

by Marc Haegeman

Shen Wei
"Connect Transfer"
Whole Art

by Clare Croft

by Lisa Traiger

Medicine Wheel Dance Project
“The Water Bearers”
A Good Idea Going Nowhere

by Rita Felciano

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

Lincoln Center Festival
Ashton Celebration

Index of all Celebration Reviews.

New! Photos from the first week of the Celebration, by Stephanie Berger, have now been added to the reviews of first week performances.

An Interview with Sylvie Guillem
about "Marguerite and Armand," Ashton, Nureyev, and other matters
by Ismene Brown

Reviews of all three casts of "Cinderella":

A Ballet for All Seasons
July 17, 2004 evening



by Mary Cargill




"Cinderella" at the matinee
July 17, 2004 matinee



by Susan Reiter




"Cinderella"
July 16, 2004 evening



by Mindy Aloff




Reviews posted last week, in between editions:

Scenes and Variations:
Ashton’s Chic Beauty



by Leigh Witchel





Hearty Meal
Scènes de Ballet; Divertissements; Marguerite and Armand




by Mary Cargill






The Ashton Ballerina
Scènes de Ballet; Divertissements; Marguerite and Armand





by Mindy Aloff







Inside:

Index of Reviews

Dick Cavett interview with Sir Frederick Ashton (1981)

"Looking at Ashton" by Bruce Sansom

"Enigma Variations" by Mary Cargill

"The Right Giants" by Alexandra Tomalonis

background information on the ballets, Links, more!

Thank you, Nigel Redden, Director, Lincoln Center Festival!  (Thanks also to David Eden, for whom we did not have a photo) (Photo: Stephanie Berger)