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Volume 2, Number 6 February 9, 2004 An online supplement to DanceView magazine
Debuts, Good Dancing, in ABT's La Bayadère La
Bayadere by
George Jackson Likely
the year was 1961, the place Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. The first
half dozen had entered, one by one, doing the same step and stretch. Would
others follow? I hoped so, and another half dozen did. Then I was afraid
they would stop. Couldn't they just keep coming on? The women of the full
Kirov corps did, descending the ramp in a grave cantilena of arabesques,
seemingly without end. It was bliss! Almost all New York succumbed to
the Shades of La Bayadere. The impact was immeasurable. Classicism,
minimalism and abstraction could no longer be seen as separate and opposed.
Modern dancers and painters started showing up at these performances.
Hatchets were buried and only Agnes de Mille dismissed the choreography
as trivial. repriinted from last week's midweek edition: ABT's Without Program Raymonda,
Without Words, Within You Without You Clare
Croft The
titles of two of the three pieces on American Ballet Theatre’s opening
night program at the Kennedy Center include the word “without:”
Nacho Duato’s Without Words and Within You Without
You by four choreographers. It’s an apt word for the program
as a whole. Tuesday night was an evening without any great choreographic
feats, without any really good roles for the company’s fine dancers
throughout the principal, soloist and corps ranks, and without the sense
of polish expected from a company among the ranks of the world or American
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What's On This Week February
14 and 15 A Weekend in New York
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company When
I return to New York, I search for three things: choreographers whose
work I have not seen, choreographers whose work I love, and work that
will never make it to more conservative Washington. This weekend in New
York, I hit the first two. I saw the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
in their twentieth anniversary program at BAM and Doug Varone and Dancers
at the Joyce. Classics and Legends Compania
Andaluza de Danza by
Tehreema Mitha The Flamenco festival, having just completed its fourth year, is firmly established in the hearts of those who follow Flamenco. “Compania
Andaluza de Danza” started its program on the 7th of February, Saturday
evening, with Bodas De Sangre (Blood Wedding) the famous
theatre piece by Federico Garcia Lorca. The story is full of romance and
tragedy as are all traditional tales from Spain.
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