Word: balletically
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...usually think of ballet as a pretty but dated art form, Boston Ballet's passionate "Don Quixote" just might change your mind. The company's performance offers brilliant dancing and a captivating interpretation of Cervantes' classic novel...
...title of the ballet may be "Don Quixote," but most of the action and dancing centers around the young lovers Kitri (Trinidad Sevillano) and Basilio (Patrick Armand). Sevillano dances the flirty Kitri with technical brilliance and girlish charm. What Sevillano lacks in sauciness, Armand more than compensates for with his sexy, Don Juan appeal and spicy leaps and turns...
...production also includes a number of students from the Boston Ballet School. While their names are not highlighted in the program, their youthful energy enhances the magic of the ballet. The live puppets of the gypsy camp and the tiny sprites of the dream sequence are particularly delightful...
...CREATORS HAVE DESCRIBED JAZZ, which premiered at the NEW YORK CITY BALLET last week, as "about America," with musical references to black history, Indian tribes and such. Don't worry about the politics: there isn't any. This six-part dance suite is set to a yawping, march-based score by Wynton Marsalis and played by the trumpeter and his band. The choreography, by City Ballet's artistic director, Peter Martins, is pure syncopated glitz -- down, dirty and eye dazzling. It's an occasion for some of the company's stars -- led by Yvonne Borree, as perky as a coffeemaker...
...made his final appearance on the stage of the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera Ballet, after a performance of his staging of La Bayadere. He needed dancers' support to stay upright. He was gaunt and emaciated, but the style was defiantly intact -- he was swathed in a huge gold-and-scarlet cape -- and so was the fiery heroism...