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...Bolshoi and elsewhere, choreography is embracing shorter, smaller-scale pieces, and that trend has led to a dearth of big-star roles. "People aren't choreographing for stars anymore - they're not doing Swan Lake," says Lynn Garafola, a dance historian and author of Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance. Increasingly, it's choreographers like Ratmansky who are taking their place as ballet's headliners. In one of Ratmansky's most celebrated moves, for example, in 2003 he restaged Bright Stream, the full-length ballet by radical Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which Stalin banned shortly after it premiered in Moscow...
Seven years ago the stage was set for the premiere of Birdbrain, choreographer Garry Stewart's first work for Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide. The new artistic director had opted for a contemporary version of Swan Lake, and when a video screen on stage displayed the word begin, nothing could have prepared the audience for the dance explosion that ensued as the worlds of ballet and techno music collided. Stewart's dancers deconstructed the story of Prince Siegfried and his dying swan Odette in T shirts wittily printed with words such as doom, lust, sieg and fried. But more amazing...
...SWAN PRINCESS...
DIED. Ruthanna Boris, 88, wry dancer-choreographer who in the '40s became the first American ballerina to earn top billing with the vaunted Ballet Russe; in El Cerrito, Calif. Famous for her versatility--she shone equally in Swan Lake and Frankie and Johnny--she directed pieces like 1947's Cirque de Deux, a spoof that likened ballet dancers to circus performers...
...DAVID MITCHELL, BLACK SWAN GREEN...