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That finesse becomes apparent in the pieces’ stronger emotional appeal. For instance, the most recent piece, “Witnesses,” was created by choreographer Laura Glenn in reaction to the events of Sept.11. The dancers?? motions powerfully evoke the horror and tragedy of that moment in American history...
Boston Ballet’s revival of “Don Quixote” is a fluffy, lighthearted romp that forgoes a sense of plot in favor of character, allowing the superb technique and humor of its dancers to shine through. Fortunately, the dancers?? energy and comic bravura compensate for any lack of emotional impact in the ballet. The Boston Ballet opened its 43rd season last weekend with “Don Quixote,” which runs Oct.19-29 at the Wang Theatre. Last performed by the company in 2003, “Don Quixote” boasts...
...composition rules, or merely the bastard child of tragedy and opera?The 1975 musical “A Chorus Line” offers a convincing argument for both sides. On the one hand, it captures do-or-die Broadway dance auditions through intimate portraits of individual dancers?? stories without losing sight of the show’s larger social implications. On the other, “A Chorus Line” is determinedly and uncomfortably self-referential—a musical about itself.A revival of this show has also arrived on Broadway, having opened at the beginning...
...very serious about dance. “You can’t help but be ecstatic,” Laskowska says with a smile.Likely, audience members at this weekend’s “I want to be…MADE” will share in the dancers?? ecstasy. —Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Dance Program of Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), dance may be the universal language, but speech and images are the universal communicants. “Dancers?? Viewpointe VI,” a two-act recital that spanned styles from classical ballet to jazzy modern, interspersed informative film-clips and spoken introductions to serve the dual purpose of educating viewers on the show’s content and cleverly distracting them from pauses between numbers. The vision of Artistic Director Elizabeth Bergman, the performance ran April 21 to 23. The recital was divided into two acts, with...