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Formed in 1970 by a few members of the Cologne Opera Ballet, Tanz Forum Koln fuses modern dance forms with the classical ballet tradition. The company's repertoire has included pieces by such wellknown choreographers as Glen Tetley, Jose Limon, Hans van Manen and Kurt Jooss. Works by Gray Veredon and Jochen Ulrich, director-choreographers of Tanz Forum Koln, dominate the performances at the Loeb this weekend, hopefully not at the expense of variety. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. $7.95, $5.95 for student rush. Call...
...Boston dance belongs to its own small dance community. The safe, established and pleasantly mediocre sails through each year on tour. Boston is too close to New York, or its theater space is too limited, to be included on the circuits of companies like the New York City Ballet or American Ballet Theater. The only big names visiting this year are the Jose Limon Company at Brandeis (November 5-7) and Alvin Ailey (February 18-20) and Pilobolus (November 12-14) at the B.U. Celebrity Series. The Celebrity Series often sells out early for names like these, but its concerts...
...week-end of November 12-14 means a choice between Pilobolus, Margalit Dance Theater and the opening performances of the Boston Ballet. This first program includes Serenade, Scotch Symphony and Prodigal Son by Balanchine and Cinderella by resident choreographer Ron Cunningham. (I've never seen any of these works, but they all seem to be about kids' fairy tales.) At the Boston Ballet tickets can be expensive, and the audience overdressed, but Balanchine looks just as interesting from the balcony...
Dudley House and the Office for the Arts are presenting a dance film series three Monday nights this fall in Boylston Auditorium. The first program is November 1 at 7:30 and includes three ballet films. Other good places to watch for dance flicks are Joy of Movement Center and the Park Street Cinema...
...landmark opera Orfeo and Euridice, 18th century male-chauvinist Parisians balked at having a male contralto play the hero, considering that an affront to their manhood; poor Gluck had to rewrite the part for tenor. In the 19th century, even a Wagner or a Verdi had to include a ballet in his opera or risk not getting it performed in Paris. In more recent times, the price of government subsidization included requirements that more than 50% of the repertory be French and that French singers be given priority. So mediocre did the Paris Opera become that former Enfant Terrible Pierre...