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...performed to the traditional music entitled “Coda” or even the final “Apotheosis” but to Russian background music. Equally curious was that “Flowers” was performed by the corps de ballet en flat, while the Dewdrop Fairy, Morgan P. Richardson ’09, was en pointe.Despite these unusual choices, Raymond W. Keller III ’08 and Erin A. Straw ’07 wowed the crowd with their performance of “Arabian,” which concluded with Straw...
...Adams' subjects are vast, ancient and rocky. His images of plants are delicate and detailed. In Trailside, near Juneau, Alaska (1947), briar leaves displaying every vein and dewdrop form a pattern with flowers and grass. Aspens, Northern New Mexico (1958) shows one small tree, its leaves drenched in sunlight, against a backdrop of grey stems and deep shadows. It's almost worth spending all your time at the show gazing at one such image...
...long enough to be boring, the ants' trip into the uncolonized wilderness is short shifted. Rather than saying some key lines about what it's like to be the arthropodic equivalent of Adam and Eve, Z and Princes Bala (voiced by Sharon Stone) get captured in a giant dewdrop and spend more time than is interesting interred in gum on the bottom of some kid's shoe (allowing unusual camera angles that will really excite the graphics techies.) These shots are "cool," but do make it seem like an Imax documentary on the "lives of an ant" has been artlessly...
...triumph, but somehow it falls short. Not because of the performances, which are fine. Culkin appears a little too camera-wise performing among relative amateurs, but he is an effective prince. Kistler dances with the tender grace of a fairy princess. Kyra Nichols leaps through the role of Dewdrop like a cavorting sprite. In the Marzipan Shepherdess's exacting solo -- full of exposed pointe work -- Margaret Tracey looks like a particularly toothsome sweet and dances impeccably...
Much of his invention is fresh and to the point. As usual with Morris, the production is gender-blind. Mother Stahlbaum is played with zest by a man (Peter Wing Healey), who doubles as a portly Dewdrop in The Waltz of the Flowers. The corps de ballet comprises both males and females, some on pointe, some not. The Snowflake Waltz, without doubt the show's highlight, is performed by this motley assemblage of 22 in an ingenious parody of classical choreography. But instead of the snow drifting down from the rafters, the dancers carry it onstage by the fistful...