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...clean, balletic line, and he and Brancato spun out a simple, elegant short program to Johann Pachelbel's Canon. In a way it was a declaration of independence. Says Galindo: "Everyone else had fast short programs, so I wanted a slow one." The long showpiece was fashioned with jazz dancer-choreographer Sharlene Franke, who called the staccato moves to Tchaikovsky "freestyle movement with high kicks and leaps--kind of like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and what you see on MTV." Not a bad combo...
Every character in the production performs a difficult dual role--that of both dancer and actor. Helena (Christina Elida Salerno) in particular does a spectacular job, her face and movements displaying the comical screams and melodramatic gasps that are not permitted to leave her lips as both Lysander (Alexander Srb) and 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...
...American musical to come along this decade. Larson has updated La Boheme and set it among the artists, addicts, prostitutes and street people of New York City's East Village. In place of Puccini's Mimi, dying of tuberculosis, is Larson's Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a drug-addicted dancer in an S&M club who is suffering from AIDS. The Rudolfo she falls for is Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive rock singer who longs for one great song to leave behind...
...perhaps one of the evening's most perplexing scenes arose when one dancer, supposedly half-human and half-machine, burst into tirade of babbling, screaming and singing. Most members of the audience made no attempts to hide their amusement, and laugher rang out. One tends to wonder whether one should have joined in the guffawing, or simply watched, shocked and disgusted that some people can not properly appreciate true...
...Asian American Dance group will perform a ribbon dance had fan dance. The ribbon dance is usually performed for the New Year, while the fan dance is a court dance, according to dancer Cecilia Chan...