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...premier ballet company gains distinction by adding to the established repertoire, either by reviving lost works, or defining new ones. Sadly, the season opener of the Boston Ballet testifies that the company can't keep pace with their ambitions...
...many weak links, lacking the animation to convincingly play counterpoint to Ponomarenko and Plotnikov's performances. He stiffly dances the Jack-in-the-Box, unable to match the manic energy the role requires. The corps of soldiers that accompany Plotnikov are equally unsatisfying, exhibiting the Boston Ballet's perennial lack of synchronization in group movements. At the end of a section, they are all supposed to kneel at the same time on the same beat, but are distractedly out of time with the music and with each other...
...avid moviegoer and a ballet and symphony afficianado, Coatsworth has little leisure time because he is currently president of the American Historical Association, a post he calls a "one-year sentence...
...Ballet President Faustino G. Ramos '96 says his group uses the Linden Street space to avoid damaging the MAC's floors...
...have a hard time using the MAC space," says Amy Shoenhals '96 of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company. "We can't do point work on the MAC floor, so we only use the MAC for rehearsals. We rehearse in soft shoes, and the floor is slippery and is not really safe...