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...Western imagination, as anyone who has attended many postwar productions of opera or Shakespeare can attest. The swastika has become a trite symbol of evil; foot soldiers in dramas tend to goose-step. Things are going a little too far, though, when synchronized swimming--also known as water ballet--fixes on death camps as a motif for aquatic drama. Such was the case with the French Olympic team, which, in preparing its effort for Atlanta this summer, crafted a routine featuring swimmers who--yes--goose-step into the pool and then, switching identities, impersonate women victims being led away...
...piece that all allusions to the Holocaust had to be excised. The French Swimming Federation, which runs the sport nationally, was crushed. Synchronized swimming sounds like something Esther Williams might like to dabble in, but it is an exacting athletic skill, and the swimmers had been practicing this particular ballet for months. Said a federation official: "The program was created to denounce not only the Holocaust in particular, but all forms of racism and intolerance that we see rising...
Jamison has danced with American Ballet Theatre, Harkness Ballet, the Vienna, Munich and Hamburg state opera ballets and Alvin Ailey. Jamison will receive a Doctorate of Arts today...
Perhaps the dancers themselves instigate drowsiness. Robert Wallace (Prince Desire) leaps amazingly and dances divinely, but he is still missing something. The sparkling enthusiasm that lit up some of Boston Ballet's previous productions, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Hot and Cool," simply cannot be found in his graceful yet lackluster style...
...Boston Ballet's latest performance of "The Sleeping Beauty" is a highly-publicized parade of elegant costumes and graceful classical ballet...and very little else. The layers upon layers of sequins in the dancers' tutus sparkle beautifully, but the show's general atmosphere does not. The show is indeed a marvel to watch...