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Boston Ballet’s revival of “Don Quixote?? is a fluffy, lighthearted romp that forgoes a sense of plot in favor of character, allowing the superb technique and humor of its dancers to shine through. Fortunately, the dancers’ energy and comic bravura compensate for any lack of emotional impact in the ballet. The Boston Ballet opened its 43rd season last weekend with “Don Quixote,” which runs Oct.19-29 at the Wang Theatre. Last performed by the company in 2003, “Don Quixote?? boasts...
...piece, provided a lively and promising beginning for the second half of the evening. Though choreography by Larissa D. Koch ’08 was often a bit too theatrical, the four dancers gave a very cohesive, technically impressive, and vibrant performance. Two pieces from “Don Quixote?? followed: “The Dream Scene” and “Kitri Variation.” The group in “The Dream Scene” gave a mostly clean performance in this difficult Marius Petipa-based choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. Both soloists, Jennifer...
...neglect to vote and we become investment bankers, and if we enter politics it is with visions of a teenaged Bill Clinton and his Rolodex of potentially useful contacts dancing in our heads. Our crusades are personal and concrete; we know the dangers of idealism, and how little Don Quixote??s pasteboard visor offers. Our early modern literary avatar is not Cervantes’ daydreaming knight but Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, who, demon-beguiled, weighs profit against loss and trades his soul for fame and money...
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