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Volume 5, Number 26 - July 1, 2007

this week's reviews

ABT's Spring Met Season
"Swan Lake"

June 28, 2007 (Murphy-Hallberg)
reviewed by Leigh Witchel
June 29, 2007 (Wiles-Hallberg)

reviewed by Mary Cargill

Hell's Kitchen Dance
by Susan Reiter

San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
by Ann Murphy

Letters and Commentary

London Letter
Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal and English National Ballets
announce their seasons

by John Percival

San Francisco Letter 26
San Francisco Ballet: Programs 6 and 7

by Rita Felciano

Letter from London
Henri Oguike Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance Company

by John Percival

Letter from Copenhagen
Nikolaj Hübbe to take over his parent company

by Eva Kistrup

did you miss any of these?

New York City Ballet's Spring Season Closing Week
"Jeu de Cartes," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "Robert Schumann’s Davidsbundlertänze"
June 17, 2007

reviewed by Leigh Witchel

"Raymonda Variations," "Dybbuk," "Stravinsky Violin Concerto"
June 19, 2007

reviewed by Leigh Witchel

Kyra Nichols' Farewell
June 22, 2007

reviewed by Mary Cargill

"Jewels"
June 23, 2007 (evening)

reviewed by Michael Popkin

ABT's Spring Met Season
"Romeo and Juliet "

June 20, 2007 matinee (Ferri-Bolle) and
June 23, 2007 evening (Murphy-Hallberg)

reviewed by Susan Reiter

June 20, 2007 evening (Dvorovenko-Carreno)
reviewed by Mary Cargill

June 22, 2007 (Kent-Corella)
reviewed by Tom Phillips

Naharin's "Decadance"
Clear Lake Contemporary Ballet

by Susan Reiter



ABT's Spring Met Season
"Swan Lake"



June 28, 2007 matinee (Murphy-Hallberg)
reviewed by Leigh Witchel

June 29, 2007 (Wiles-Hallberg)
reviewed by Mary Cargill

 


Hell's Kitchen Dance
by Susan Reiter

It seemed poignant and oddly appropriate that, while the two major ballet companies with which he performed so spectacularly during an earlier period were holding forth on grand Lincoln Center stages with velvet curtains for several thousand people, Mikhail Baryshnikov was revealing his exquisite mature artistry in an unadorned, intimate black-box space 25 blocks to the south for about 200 fortunate spectators. The setting, the repertory, the project itself — an unpretentious ensemble, most of them still in or just past their undergraduate years, that he has assembled for its second summer of touring — suggest how unconcerned Baryshnikov is with the grander trappings of celebrity or stature, and how much he currently revels in the process of creation and in a direct, forthright approach to performance. Yes, the four-performance run was preceded by a major New York Times feature and a (by network TV standards) generous profile on the “Today Show,” so one could hardly say his performances took place completely under the radar. But the matter-of-fact tone of the presentation — from the no-frills printed program to the de facto star’s lack of star curtain calls — was as far removed as possible from “uptown” glamour and hype. READ MORE


San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
by Ann Murphy

I’m not a regular to the Ethnic Dance Festival — for years it has had to compete with the school play, the orchestral recital, a birthday celebration or the annual end-of-the-school-year getaway booked 12 months in advance. But kids grow, the school schedule changes, and now that the children in question are teenagers, the getaway no longer seems as tantalizing as it once did. Life evolves. Cultures do too. READ MORE

 

 

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