Word: balletically
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Following on the bright red heels of the extraordinary evening that was "American Festival I", the Boston Ballet's "American Festival II" offers a range of modern ballet experiences, not all of them satisfying...
Their movements are in perpetual conflict. Traditional ballet positions are intermingled with unfamiliar forms. Rhythms are synchronized and instantaneously contradicted...
...classically trained company's execution of Feld's challenge to traditional ballet is commendable, with minor exceptions. The dancers falter during Feld's complicated, highly rhythmic patterns, when they lose their sense of the sequences' purpose and break their connection to each other in the chaos...
However, "Contra Pose" does not work well as an opening piece. Its challenge to the form and structure of ballet dampens the following, more traditional works in the program...
...Waterbaby Bagatelles" (1994), with its fetish for the aesthetic, is Twyla Tharp's gesture towards more conventional dance. It comes complete with dazzling moves, eclectic jazzy tunes, beautiful aqua bathing costumes and clever florscent scenic effects; it is everything a ballet should...