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...Boston Ballet usually offers enchanting and accomplished dance. Yet, while its current production starts out on a hopeful note with Gerald Arpino’s slight and appealing Suite Saint-Saëns, it is unable to sustain momentum through the headliner, Bruce Wells’ heavily anticipated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both shows are strongly choreographed and well-staged dramatically, but Midsummer ultimately disappoints due to an inexperienced cast of dancers unsuited to the material...
Arpino, co-founder of The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, impresses, though, with Suite Saint-Saëns, which sparkles with a playful beauty and shows off a distinctly American spirit. Though the choreography is based in the style of classical ballet, it contains many modern elements and is blessed with a strong athletic theme that lends the piece a delightfully informal...
...lighting of Suite Saint-Saëns, originally designed by Thomas Skelton and here recreated by Linda O’Brien, creates an intimate space on the stage that highlights the communal feeling between the dancers as they weave in and out of the principal focus of motion. The show leaves the audience with the memory of a beautiful ballet and excited about the promise of the grand theatrical piece to come...
Unfortunately, A Midsummer Night’s Dream did not live up to the expectations produced by Suite Saint-Saëns. It is not the choreography that misfires, as the dance is interesting and generally innovative, even if certain dances, like Oberon’s variation, seem crammed in, with insufficient motivation and emotion...
...comfort. She heard him cry out twice; eventually, he fell silent. She repeatedly asked God, "Please give me a second chance at life." There was only darkness and dust. So she said another prayer: "Please just give me this one miracle." And a man appeared above her, a saint named Paul, who lifted her from the rubble. Twenty-six hours had passed...