Word: ballets
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...slender dancer in a black leotard presses the heel of her angularly flexed foot onto the hardwood stage before moving into an elegant enchaînement. This juxtaposition of elements of modern dance and classical ballet is the essence of Then, Here & Now, José Mateo’s new ballet program playing at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church across the street from Pennypacker Hall...
While Mateo emphasizes that there is no coherent narrative to the program and that the focus is the visual experience, what is consistent is the way he challenges the traditional manner that ballets are viewed. The music of Bach’s Piano Concerto in G minor which accompanies “Back to Bach” embodies Mateo’s iconoclasm. Towards the end of the second movement, soaring strings and a stage of fierce women in black is, Mateo says, “an affirmation of feminine strength and of women who are traditionally portrayed as ancillary...
...control over what I'm offered, but I guess I have some control over what I've accepted. I try to stay with things that I feel a little bit of comfort with or grew up with. I guess I will never be offered a part as a ballet teacher, and if I am, I hope I have the good sense not to take...
Like Dr. Charles Falco, 54, a professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona at Tucson. He enjoys art history, theater, ballet and travel. He has an extensive library in his home--and 17 motorcycles outside it. Falco's journeys have taken him as far as the Pyrenees Mountains, bordering Spain and France, and the back roads of western Ireland. "Riding a bike gives me a young feeling, like I'm 15 again," Falco says. "It's a great way to see the world and awaken the senses...
...Today Yen is teaching ballet and is engaged to Hai. She is keen to act again. But if this Vietnamese Cinderella never does another film, she can always remember the day she traded her ballet slipper for a glass...