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...Firebird has arrived to save you not only from this storybook realm but also from the grim grind of Harvard midterms. Boston Ballet's season opener, Firebird and The Princess and the Pea, which premiered last Thursday to a well-deserved standing ovation, runs through Sunday...
...Anything you see by Boston Ballet, one of America's top five dance companies, will be good. Their dancers are the creme of the crop, reason alone to see this show. But this show has even more going for it. Firebird's award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, a current soloist with New York City Ballet, is one of the most innovative and heralded of new choreographers, having inspired big articles in Time and Dance Magazine. Daring to re-choreograph an already well-loved ballet, in Firebird he creates a new masterpiece from an old one, his choreography departing from...
...Starring Mainly Jazz Dance Company and Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company...
...premise: A joint venture between Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company and Mainly Jazz, this show gives high-quality, wide-ranging dance in one evening. Works include everything from funky hip-hop to classical ballet, highlighting modern, creative, student choreography and a rock jazz/ballet piece...
...What to look for: This promises to be one of the most exciting dance events of the year. The dancers are amazingly talented, starring in choreography that spans many styles. Harvard Ballet Company shows that there's more to ballet than tutus, while Mainly Jazz showcases their variety with funk and precision. Watch for Fabiana Kepler's choreography to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal," modern ballet pieces by Elizabeth Santoro and dance instructor Shannon Colver, a work by Boston jazz Professional Tracy Tedesco, and for the tutu-lovers out there, a short excerpt from the traditional ballet Don Quixote...