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...fancies dancing the Trepak, on the other hand, is an original character. But all’s well that ends well—the Mouse King is killed and the Nutcracker prevails. He takes Clara to the Enchanted Forest ruled by the Snow Queen and King, danced by Lia Cirio and Pavel Gurevich with wonderful virtuosity and panache. The sets by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn were well worth the price of admission and generated audible awe at the rise of the curtain for the second act. The second act might be the one realm in the ballet trajectory that...
...When it's completed 20 years from now, KAEC will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population exceeding 1.5 million. It will have a seaport, an industrial district, a financial center, a health-care zone, a full-fledged university and a beach resort. Not since Braslia and Chandigarh in the 1950s and '60s has any country set out to build an entirely new city on such a scale...
...first real counterweight to the U.S. Lula led the creation of a bloc of developing nations, the G-20, to thwart U.S. and European hegemony in global trade talks. "I believe implicitly that Brazil has found its way," Lula told Time at the Planalto presidential palace in Braslia...
...Tracey says of “Barocco,” “In 18 minutes you see everything you need to know about ballet...The marriage between the music and the movement in this piece is perfection.” To the sound of a lone accompanist, dancers Lia Cirio and Melanie Atkins demonstrated the quick pointework and exacting musicality characteristic of the iconic work, which first debuted in 1941. Meant to personify the violins in Bach’s “Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins,” the two women delightfully executed...
Both parties recognize that the Spanish family isn't easily harnessed to campaign rhetoric. Like architect Antoni Gaudí's signature Barcelona cathedral, the Sagrada Família - where the spires share space with cranes and scaffolding in a never-ending bid to complete the original 1883 design - the Spanish family is both sacred and a confounding work in progress...