Word: ballets
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...Boston Ballet...
Imagine all the guests at your wedding dropping their wine glasses--in unison. While that may not happen in real life, it can happen at the Boston Ballet, in one of three pieces presented in their performance Without Words at the Shubert Theater last week...
Thomson's unnamed protagonist is a dancer, 29, with a ballet company in Amsterdam. He is, at the outset, a happy man. His well-regarded initial efforts as a choreographer allow him to look forward to a satisfying career when his performing days come to an end. He remains in love with Brigitte, a fellow dancer with whom he has lived and to whom he has stayed faithful for seven years. When she asks him to go out and buy her a pack of cigarettes, he teases her about smoking too much but walks willingly into the spring sunshine...
...sweat at an astonishing pace. (Especially since the wrestlers did not appear to be doing anything that could be considered the least bit physically taxing.) But after I'd seen my fifth creotine monster doing some sort of fierce, satanic, testosterone-induced dance around the ring wearing modified ballet slippers1, I got bored...
...news when the brightest star of postmodern dance has an opening, but this premiere at the New York City Ballet fails to catch fire. Tharp's twitchy, fidgety signature moves are swamped by Beethoven's overwhelming dance rhythms. Making a ballet to the Seventh Symphony, it seems, is like turning Hamlet into an opera: good enough just isn't good enough...