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Adriana Suarez is quite possibly one of the greatest things ever to happen to the Boston Ballet. Her dignified elegance shone in "Glazounov Classique," the preview selection to last spring's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." She sparkled as the soloist in "Passage," the world-premiere conclusion to this fall's "Boogie, Brass and Blue." And now, once again, she combines beauty and strength with fiery fervor on the stage of the Wang Center, this time as the lead role in "Carmen...
Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan demonstrated several Mexican dances at the event, from the artful El Son de la Negra to El Jarabe Tapastio...
This final moment reduced more than a few spectators to tears, and as the curtain rose for the final bows, the audience leaped to a standing ovation. Boston Ballet has truly triumphed in presenting this tale of love, pride, and heart-wrenching denial...
...Fall River Legend," the opening piece, is an adaptation of Morton Gould's full score for the Agnes DeMille ballet about Lizzie Borden, the same one who "took an ax" and "gave her parents forty whacks." Thought it calls for fewer than 20 performers, it requires them to sound like many more. This illusion succeeded best in the fanciful second movement, "Waltzes" and the "Elegy" that follows, a piece that itself could secure for its creator a reputation as one of America's greatest tonal composers. Previn and his temporarily reduced company made it not only a focused meditation...
...Cotillion" evoked, somewhat to its own disadvantage, a scene from another DeMille ballet: "Hoedown" from Rodeo. The percussion produced by the orchestra seemed too heavy here, but was just right for the burlesque "Epilogue," an exciting Howard Hanson-meets-Bernard Herrman affair...