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Thursday, February 17. Dance Talks II with Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen. 7 P.M. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts, Agassiz House. Tickets $10, Harvard students free. Tickets at Harvard Box Office...
...ending arrives and drenches the previous two hours of drivel with an appropriate escape from reality. As Stiles is auditioning for Julliard, she stops mid-way, unable to finish, but wait—hot boyfriend enters the scene, provides encouragement, and she moves directly into a hip-hop ballet fusion piece that drops the judges’ collective jaw! In fact, it’s so amazing that the judges tell her right away that she’s accepted, even though they likely have 5,000 more Mary-Kate Olsen-loving ballerinas to test...
Stiles’ obnoxious character, transformed from petite ballerina into hardcore, bass-thumping Lil’ Ballet Kim, falls in love with a hot black classmate. An annoying Valentine’s Day-esque romance ensues, as their peers come to accept the relationship after a nicely lit love scene that brings back painful memories of Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis...
...Role Our Milestone on the death of ballerina Alicia Markova [Dec. 13] emphasized her link to the romantic role of Giselle. Three years ago, TIME Europe highlighted the popularity of Giselle and included Markova's views, as well as her stringent comments on any radical updating of the classic ballet [June...
...There's something eternal in the basic narrative,' says John Neumeier, artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet ... 'A woman who's very pure and trusting and in the end very strong, and a man who's made a great mistake' ... It's a simple enough story: Giselle, a frail young peasant girl, [goes mad and] dies after she finds out that her lover Albrecht?who is from a much higher rung on the social ladder?has deceived her ... Prima ballerinas want to dance Giselle. It's a part that can make or break careers ... 'It's considered the same...