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Next on the program is "Four Hands," principal dancer Lazlo Berdo's choreographic masterpiece, set to sprightly Rachmaninoff works being performed live onstage by Freda Locker and Maya Isyanova. Amy Persky's costumes, again mostly consisting of stretch velvet (though black in this ballet) and artfully displaying the dancers' hands and feet, become the perfect accent for the breathtakingly intense piano music--at moments, the dancers seem to be the piano keys themselves. A fantastic lighting design by Linda O'Brien expresses the varying moods of the performance perfectly, from deliciously jazzy to achingly romantic...
...conclusion, though, comes as a substantial let-down. After much applause for the dancer's performance to the pseudo-classical Irish music rhythms, the music begins pounding again, but this time to a fantastically energetic rock background. Immediately, the performers begin swirling and kicking across the stage again, until everything builds up to....nothing. The music fades away with disturbing abruptness, and the curtain falls as the dancers are still moving. Had everyone only waited until the song ended on one clear note, the resounding energy would have undoubtedly brought everyone in the theater to cheering out loud all over...
Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, in a strange country. In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high on her toes, poised for dancing. "Play that last measure softly...
...premieres his newest work this month in New York City, he'll be dancing to the beat of his own heart. A device modified by artist Christopher Janney will capture electrical impulses passing between Baryshnikov's head, heart and feet and use them to regulate musical accompaniment, making the dancer's body the conductor. "My work is like a visual jazz," says Janney. Amplifying nature's rhythms is Janney's specialty. He built what may be the largest piece of interactive public art ever--a 180-ft.-high mosaic of colored glass--in the Miami airport. What's interactive about...
...first act is filled with story telling and action, the second act is where the serious dancing actually takes place. The Spanish (chocolate) dance is all high kicks and jumps, followed by the slow, sensual Arabian (coffee), which requires great flexibility and extension on the part of the female dancer. Next comes the Chinese (tea), with two lead dancers accompanied by eight little girls with parasols; then a Marzipan shepherd and shepherdess, with four adorable little girls as sheep. The Russian variation is always the most exciting, as the five men jump, stomp and cheer in fine style; the lead...