Word: balletic
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...ballet that began the reign of Romantic ballet, “La Sylphide,” also began the Boston Ballet’s 2007-2008 season at the Wang Theatre. Due to its brevity, the piece was paired with and preceded by Balanchine’s groundbreaking “Serenade.” With its simple elegance and timeless plot, “Serenade” was, of the two pieces, the true gem, outshining “La Sylphide” in its choreography (by Sorella Englund after August Bournonville) and performance...
...With a ballet entirely driven by plot, most of the scenes harnessed an element of drama, which, though artfully rendered, often distracted from the dancing itself. As the character who drove the plot, Molina also had the strongest performance. His turns often lacked energy, but his leaps more than made up for it. Molina consistently out-danced Cornejo, despite her clear talent and clean technique...
...Regardless of such imbalances, the company as a whole gave a very strong, clean performance of this canonical ballet. Most impressively, six young Boston Ballet School students performed alongside the corps in the wedding scene, maintaining unison in a fast-paced routine...
...Sylphide.” While this interaction with the set was consistent throughout the show, the most impressive example was also its best moment. As the sylph clutched her heart and died, it appeared as if that was the last moment of beauty in the ballet. But her depicted resurrection was a stunning aesthetic moment: Laying on the ground, covered in the translucent scarf that poisoned her, she was slowly elevated through the trees of the forest until she was out of sight. Meanwhile, the rest of the sylphs that inhabited the forest mourned for her in a funeral procession...
...similar story. According to her, Michael J. Fox replaced the original actor for the part of Marty McFly, who was fired six weeks into shooting. Like Fox, Thompson also caught a lucky break. She discussed her origins as a dancer, noting that she only stumbled onto acting when her ballet company owed a theatre company money. She was sent as payment. “They traded me like a ho to be in this play,” she said. “I accidentally fell into this other thing—acting—and then...