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This unique turn of the plot works on a number of levels throughout the performance. In the sisters' mockery of dance both in their home and later in-front of the ball, and in their interplay with the Shakespearean court jester (dressed in the Lampoon's purple, red and yellow), the sisters offer an unexpected element of hilarity to romance and of mockery to ballet's conservatism. While offering comic relief, the cross-gender casting also fits into the old English tradition of en travestie, linking theater to dance. Finally, stylistically, the stage presence of two giant stepsisters dwarf...

Author: By Amanda S. Federman, | Title: Swept Away by the Boston Ballet | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

Cinderella offers a unique involvement with a fairy tale deeply embedded in all of us. The interplay between drama and dance, gender and jester leaves the viewer with a new and deeper sense of the fairy tale and its possibilities...

Author: By Amanda S. Federman, | Title: Swept Away by the Boston Ballet | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

...interested in the interplay of race and ethnicity in Black immigrants," she said. "[The award] offers me the opportunity to write without having to teach...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Five Researchers Win Guggenheim | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...interplay between Daren Firestone and Lizzy Marlantes, who portray the newly engaged Mortimer and Elaine, is sarcastic and sexy. As the only level-headed characters in the play, Firestone and Marlantes hold their own as a comic couple. Marlantes draws as much humor as she can out of a role which is overwhelmed by the hyperactivity of the others...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Heiresses Have Fun With Arsenic | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

...suave construction of pictorial space and pragmatic realism. Then, equally fundamental, there is Giorgione, Titian's exact coeval, but dead "of exhaustion as much as the plague," as one literary mourner obscurely put it, in his early 30s. So little is known about Giorgione's life that the interplay of influence between the two young artists will probably never be fully sorted out. Our ignorance of it has given rise to innumerable wrangles over which paintings can be ascribed to early Titian and which to Giorgione...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brush With Genius | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

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