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...famous choreographer’s] work, like Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, the big stuff, but I had no idea how it should look, since I had never seen NYCB. I went first to San Francisco as an apprentice, and I got to learn “Rubies?? and the “Emeralds corps” from Jewels, but I didn’t know how to be big, I didn’t know how to be dynamic, in the Balanchine way. THC: How instrumental was the SAB in molding you into the versatile...
...career began in Russia’s St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet. After the Russian Revolution, he moved on to France in the twenties and thirties and finally to America where his artistic genius took off. In “Emeralds,” “Rubies?? and “Diamonds,” Balanchine evokes each country that formed the basis of his career—their national spirit and the spirit of their ballet. “Jewels,” despite the obviousness of its eponymous theme, is a masterpiece, and the Boston Ballet...
...largely up to the interpreter to set the mood of the dance. Lam was both desperately somber and charmingly lighthearted, and his unmatchable plasticity gave way to extraordinarily sketched patterns in the air.One of the fireworks came early, in the form of an excerpt from the “Rubies?? section of George Balanchine’s full-length plotless ballet “Jewels.” Considered the crown of Balanchine’s jazzy, bold, American-inspired works, it fits its Stravinsky score like a glove. Misa Kuranaga absolutely nailed the glamour, sexiness, and sophistication...
...Rubies?? should be required listening for all emo bands. A little exposure to Bejar’s elegant poetry might inspire them to stop writing painfully literal songs about unrequited love and teenage angst...
Bejar’s lyrics have earned him scattered comparisons to Bob Dylan, and there are tracks on “Rubies?? that would not seem out of place on Dylan records like “Blood On the Tracks” or “Desire.” While these comparisons don’t hold up if you seriously consider the polyvalent genius and longevity of Dylan, Bejar is at the least a better candidate for “the next Dylan” than any of his contemporaries that have been tapped as such...