Word: coppelia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leading the list of ballet offerings is Coppelia, one of the all-time classics about a life-like doll that mysteriously comes to life. The Boston Ballet performs it March 9-12 at the Music Hall in Boston; call 542-3945 for ticket info...
EVEN IF NAYLOR is coping as he was directed, Anne Strassner as Beatriz sometimes slips into reciting when acting poetry. Strassner is a Beatriz without innocence, more a Coppelia than a New Eve with her shoulders drooping and her tinge of petulance. She is as at her best at the end as she gulps from a silver vial that is supposed to redeem her poisonous blood--even though it seems to contradict her intent in the preceding speech...
...indeed? Yet much of the Track's success lies in the inherent shock of seeing a hefty male wrapped in a chiffon skirt dancing on point. "In Coppelia, I must be the biggest milkmaid in the world," concedes 6-ft. 2-in. Natch Taylor, 27, whose stage personae are Suzina La Fuzziovitch and Alexis Ivanovitch Lermontov...
Once daringly avantgarde, Parade today seems as revolutionary as, say, Coppelia. The Jeffrey dancers-notably Gary Chryst, who has frequently performed the original Massine role of the Chinese conjurer-have been wondrously successful in recapturing the setting and style of the original, and the work itself is performed in an engagingly ambivalent manner that seems to be saying both "Here it is, folks," and "Don't take all this too seriously." A little more of that frolicsome spirit might have helped Pulcinella. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other old Ballets Russes masterpieces just waiting for the Jeffrey treatment. Anyone...
Hoffmann works as an opera because its music is inventive and full of deft characterizing touches. There is no reason the storied fancies of E.T.A. Hoffmann cannot work as ballet too-as long since proved by Coppelia and The Nutcracker. This Hoffmann has a recomposed score by John Lanchbery that draws also on other colorful Offenbach works. But its choreographic steps and gestures are trite, even humdrum at points, and devoid of the kind of grand line that grand ballet at its best demands. (Ah, those outstretched arms signaling the courtesan's entrance-as in a silent film starring...