Word: ballets
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...Pudding theater is a small stage, but I want to figure out if is an option for us," says Liz M. Santoro '01, co-director of the Harvard Ballet Company. "As a dancer, I've performed in small places--you make due with what you have...
Such a loose standard is both dangerous and misleading. It is dangerous because it opens the door for states to restrict almost any kind of speech on flimsy theories of cause and effect. Nude dancing at a strip bar and nude dancing at the ballet are two entirely different kinds of speech. Yet the city's ordinance allows the government to ban both in the name of fighting crime. The court's decision, wrote Justice David H. Souter '61, ignores that evidence of negative effects "must be a demonstrated fact, not speculative supposition...
...American Civil Liberties Union and Debbie Ohanian, the concert promoter who brought Los Van Van to Miami, tell TIME that they plan to file a federal suit this week. "My family is from Armenia, which was under Soviet communism for 70 years, and yet we still allowed the Bolshoi Ballet to perform here," says Ohanian, 43. "As an American, this law offends...
...tight-fitting, flesh-colored suits, giving the impression of being nude. To put it lightly, as dance critic Anna Kisselgoff said, "Duato has a gift for the startling image." The choreography is equally as startling. It consists of busy, fast-paced steps, completely departing from even neo-classical ballet in both movement and atmosphere. Duato's choreography is difficult and tricky, and Boston Ballets dancers executed it with athleticism, clarity and polish...
...with a marriage: a couple embraces while the guests hold up wine glasses in a toast. Suddenly, the music clashes and all the guests let go of their cups, which (because they are tied to the ceiling by invisible wire) then swing in unison for the remainder of the ballet. This stark, surprising introduction immediately drew me into the piece. The ever-present wine glasses represent the promises and happiness of the wedding; they hang from the ceiling to show a direct opposition to the unhappy events that ensue. The bride has an affair and ultimately is forced to choose...