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...Swan Lake that is set indoors. A ballet version of Henry James' Washington Square, featuring, among many other intrusions, cartoon black minstrels and cowboys. Not what one might at first expect from so historic an institution as the Paris Opera Ballet, but both items came along on the troupe's first American appearance since 1948. Expectations for the visit ran very high. The company's school is considered one of the world's best, a preserver of both the French and Italian technique and dance vocabulary. The institution itself has an ineffable aura of glamour, and in three years...
...gets shunted aside, robbing the work of its drama and focus. And what possessed Nureyev to dredge the swans' lake? In this version they must invade the castle to get into the action at all. There are still things to admire in this work, including the attractive corps de ballet and the exquisite tutus, designed by Franca Squarciapino. Washington Square, set to Charles Ives' music, is a complete fiasco, 70 minutes of bombastic, step- ridden choreography, including another inflated role, the father, often danced by Nureyev. As choreographer, he opened out James' tale of emotional suffocation by adding such empty...
...sooner had the last sparkle of the Liberty celebration faded than another French-American spectacle lighted up the night. Last week, as part of a ten-day France Salutes New York festival, the Paris Opera Ballet, making its first U.S. visit in 38 years, shared a stage with the American Ballet Theatre before a benefit audience brimming with celebrities, including Nancy Reagan. One highlight of the festivities was provided by Rudolf Nureyev, 48, the Paris troupe's artistic director, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, 38, his counterpart at A.B.T. The two Soviet-exile superstars joined French-born Actress Leslie Caron...
Rameau was born in Dijon in 1683. He studied in Italy, the wellspring of baroque art, then bumped around France as an organist before finally settling in Paris about 1722. Rather late in his career--he was 50--he turned to opera and found his real metier. The opera-ballet Les Fetes d'Hebe, subtitled Les Talents Lyriques, received nearly 400 performances beginning with its premiere in 1739, gradually fading from the repertory in the decade following the composer's death...
...Dance Center has been offering aspiring professional dancers and students who just want to dance the opportunity to spend six weeks of their summer totally immersed in dance. About 165 students come to Harvard to partake of the more than 20 dance courses offered. Classes range from the classical ballet, jazz and tap offerings to dance therapy and choreography workshops...