Word: ballets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Friday, April 22. Harvard Ballet Company presents “13th Annual Spring Performance.” 8 p.m. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts. $10; students $5. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...cold war's back, and Hollywood's got it. Rambo muscles his way into Viet Nam and gets to win this time. Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger make every infidel bleed red, white and blue. And now, Mikhail Baryshnikov stars in a parable about a ballet star who eight years ago sought asylum in the West only to plunge into a refugee's nightmare: his plane crash-lands in Siberia, and he's back in the U.S.S.R. Once again, the good guys wear white, the bad guys...
...detail must seem irrelevant to Director Taylor Hackford; he knows that White Nights will be a hit only if it is seen as an extended music and dance video. With ingenious duplicity, Hackford has worked ten new pop tunes, by Phil Collins and Lionel Richie, among others, into a ballet film set in the U.S.S.R. He has also had the inspiration, radical by the standards of recent musicals, to keep his dancers' feet in the film frame, and to hold a shot long enough to anchor the loping rhythms of Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Hines taps and boogies--and acts...
Branding, like ballet, becomes poetry in motion, a slick sequence of moves that turn a mere job into an art form. Whether breaking broncs or chasing wild cows across cedar-infested slopes, punching cows demands courage, precision and a certain lan. Ross Knox understands the cowboy's art. So does fellow Poet Georgie Sicking...
...Natasha S. Alford ’08 presented a spoken word piece, “A Message to My Sons,” in praise of black men “for never being quitters” and acting as heroes for their communities. The show also included a ballet performance and a rendition of the song “At Last” by Callie P.S. Watkins...