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...later. After joining the Boston Ballet in 2003, Kuranaga has risen up through the ranks and was last week promoted to the company’s highest rank, Principal, in the midst of its “Jewels” run. One of Boston’s most beloved dancers, she is regularly invited to guest internationally, and as a homecoming of sorts, participated in SAB’s 75th anniversary gala performance with the New York City Ballet (NYCB) several weeks ago, an experience she calls the “highlight” of her year. She recently...
...celebration, commemoration, and meditation, not a performance” A.R.T. director Gideon Lester said, “Our intention is to invite representation across the arts and humanities... and stimulate the visual landscape of your imagination.” Aided by world-class artists like Ma, Morrison, and dancer Damian Woetzel, “Witness” aimed to verify the powerful outcome of a union between the realities of the human condition and the creative, artistic manifestations of a living, aspiring soul, in addition to the potential of art to transform human relations.Woetzel, introduced by Bhabha...
...faithful life companion, but also reflecting on the slow disintegration of the family structure. Sentiments aside, the direction of the movie, which is set in Germany and Japan, pays tribute to a cross-cultural exchange between East and West embodied in the interaction between Rudi and a teenaged Butoh dancer named Yu (Aya Irizuki). While Rudi travels to Japan as a way of making amends to his dead wife, it is not until he meets Yu that he learns about an aspect of his wife’s life that had previously eluded him. Thus, Butoh’s dancing...
...curled white wig jerks his head, filling the air with dust as he moves. Bubbles spontaneously appear onstage, and the 14 ballet dancers begin to play with them; a woman pops the one in front of her, another tries to gather them in her arms. In “Black and White,” the U.S. premiere of five ballets choreographed by Jirí Kylián between 1986 and 1991, decorum is literally cast off and left excavated on the stage like a mask behind which no face appears. Variations of an elaborate, rigid 18th century dress appear...
...Bennett ‘11RR: What do you think of the paintings?SRW: I’m very impressed. Our friend has practically lived here, so it’s nice to see the end result.RR: So was she successful?SRW: Of course! She’s a dancer, and I can see a lot of the same talent in her paintings.MAB: All of the paintings here are so different. There’s a lot of self-expression. Cartoons next to big splotches.SRW: I like the monsters. They’re cute in a freakish way.RR: Do you think...