Word: berdo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carmen," originally an opera by Georges Bizet, is the name and the story of a seductive young woman in Spain who flirts her way into a violent and ultimately fatal love triangle. At the start of the dance, she seduces a Spanish corporal named Don Jose (Lazlo Berdo), who is in love with a meek girl named Micaela (Larissa Ponomarenko). When Don Jose is jailed for refusing to arrest Carmen, his wild new love captures Escamillo (Gino DiMarco), a proud bullfighter, with her charms. (Music lovers--the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" theme parades around at this point...
...losing her first love to another woman. Her mournful poignancy pulls at one's heartstrings so much that one cannot be completely sympathetic toward Carmen. On a more upbeat note, however, DiMarco and his fellow toreadors strut their stuff with a confident grace that compliments that of Carmen herself. Berdo, as the torn Don Jose, alternates well between his haughty, machismo corporal side and his madwith-passion lover side. And of course, Suarez and her various partners meld with a vibrant fluidity rarely seen in the ballet genre...
...scenery form an ideal backdrop for the light-hearted dancing and the lovely innocence of young Tatiana (Larissa Ponamarenko), who is absorbed in a book. With the arrival of Olga's lover, Lensky, the young couple dance with neighborhood friends. Lensky is accompanied by his friend Onegin (Laszlo Berdo), a handsome Russian nobleman clad in black, with whom Tatiana immediately falls in love. That evening Tatiana composes a love letter to Onegin, and falls asleep only to dream of him coming to her through the mirror in her room, thus beginning a tenderly beautiful pas de deux, superbly danced...
...beautiful woman; clad in a lovely rose-colored dress, she demonstrates her devotion to her husband as they dance before their guests. The now gray-haired Onegin returns from his wanderings only to find that the Prince's wife was once the young girl whose love he rejected. Berdo exhibits a deep understanding of Onegin's regret and sorrow in his portrayal of the character's painful moment of discovery. In the final scene, Tatiana is in her room reading a love letter from Onegin. He comes to see her, and once again they are swept up into a passionate...
...Demetrius (Gino DiMarco) pursue her. Lysander and his true love, Hermia (Marjorie Grundvig), create a lovely image of passionate lovers fleeing from their confining world. The four "Rustics"--Bottom and his crew--deliver perfectly timed comic relief, and the royal couple of Titania (Natasha Akhmarova) and Oberon (Laszlo Berdo) take everyone's breath away with their emotional grace and dignified stage presence...