Word: swans
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...Gotta Dance Missed last weekend’s once-in-a-lifetime “Swan Lake” performance by the Russian Kirov Ballet? To make up for your cultural ignorance, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (that’s so Cambridge...) presents a preview of the Boston-based dance company Snappy Dance Theater’s original production, “String Beings.” According to Snappy’s website, the performance “explores the relationship between manipulating and being manipulated.” Don’t forget your rape whistle...
Adrienne Sharp’s “White Swan, Black Swan,” opens with an image capturing the sublimity of the dancer’s body in motion. New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancer Joanna is watching from the wings as her boyfriend Ridley performs a pas de deux from George Balanchine’s “Jewels...
...Swan Lake,” the classical ballet from which Sharp’s text takes its title, figures prominently throughout the individual stories as a metaphor for the resolution of conflicting human desires through the formalized tensions of dance...
...narrator of the climatic title story asserts, “[Audiences] wanted to see a love story, and this was the big one, ‘Swan Lake,’ four acts of love, regret, death, and absolution.” Indeed, when ABT principals and lovers Lexa and Robbie dance the roles of the Swan Queen Odette and her prince Seigfried, they exhibit a perfect “erotic synergy.” Odette’s desire for her prince ultimately defeats the evil sorcerer von Rothbart, who would keep them apart...
...White Swan, Black Swan” exhibits an evocative vibrancy resulting from Sharp’s privileging of experiential description over critical terminology: “Like balsa bent into a bow, I am rocked into an impossible backward C, Nilas holding my arms and one leg above us, stringing me up. Then I am lashed beneath his body. My leg is extended high and pressed between us like a sword. Our pelvises meet and pulse. The audience takes a collective breath...