Word: albrechts
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...ballet is in two acts and portrays the sorrowful love story of a young peasant girl, Giselle. The first act takes place in a rural village where it is harvest season. A frail young Giselle falls in love with a flirtatious Albrecht who is, unknown to her, a count disguising himself as a peasant. Albrecht quickly wins her heart and swears his love for her in a joyful scene which ends with Giselle pulling off the petals of a flower in a game of "He loves me, he loves...
...superhip HBO talk show, The Chris Rock Show. And Rock recently finalized a deal with HBO to develop new specials and series for the cable channel. "HBO has been known for breaking top comedians, and Chris is the most important to come along in a long time," says Chris Albrecht, president of original programming for HBO. "He's a guy who can get away with being honest in a way that few people...
...show displays both the medium's instruments--etching needle, drypoint needle, copper plate--and demonstrates the distinction between etching and other printmaking processes. In three sixteenth-century works by Albrecht Durer, the differences between etching, engraving and woodcut printmaking are evident. The woodcut is cruder, with broad areas of black and white, and the well-defined line necessarily supercedes tone and mood...
...principal dancers, Larissa Ponomarenko and Patrick Armand (Giselle and Count Albrecht), injected a good deal of acting into their dancing, and thus dramatically conveyed the pinnacles and plunges of their respective emotional roller-coasters. However, Ponomarenko and Armand remained unsupported in their eruptions of energy. The soloists and corps seemed unfocused and emotionally neutral. The lack of enthusiasm in the village's celebrations of Act I and the superficial pathos of the Wills in Act II detracted from Ponomarenko and Armand's powerful performances...
Especially notable was her rendition of madness; with her hair loose and a frantic, self-absorbed demeanor, Ponomarenko absorbed the audience in her pain as she pantomimed the scenes Giselle had shared with Count Albrecht...