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...Bourne's success, Davidson says, is born of his genius as a storyteller. "Pieces like Swan Lake are so artistically provocative, in the way you're given a chance to look at a work of art with fresh eyes." For Miyako Kanamori, an executive director of HoriPro, a Tokyo-based entertainment company that has presented Bourne's work in Japan, the appeal lies in the universality of his themes. Expressing human feelings through movement is a feature of traditional Japanese Noh plays, and familiarity with Kabuki drama, in which female parts are played by male actors, has made Bourne...
Matthew Bourne is the world's most popular living dance maker. Every night of the year, in some twilit city, the curtain goes up on one of his shows. On his tempestuous, mostly male Swan Lake, the longest-running dance production in London's history and a triple Tony Award winner on Broadway. On The Car Man, his steamy spot-welding of Carmen and The Postman Always Rings Twice. On his bittersweet Nutcracker or his funny, touching Edward Scissorhands...
...Bourne dates the beginning of his international career to an evening in 1997, when Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director of the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, went to see a London production of Swan Lake, with its cast of virile, threatening male swans. "I was amazed by what he'd done," recalls Davidson, who retired in 2005. "I said to myself, we have to do it - somehow." He brought the piece over to L.A.'s 2,000-seat Ahmanson Theater, whose audience was more used to touring Broadway shows than experimental dance. But when Davidson wrote...
...YORK — The recent parade of current and former Bush administration officials through Congress has offered each ignoble public servant a peculiar swan song. I have had the privilege of watching this parade at close range—well, within close range of the live feed on my computer screen—as part of my work this summer...
...July 19, the three families of the deceased say they were invited to the airport police station to meet with American officers, identified by Mohammed as Brigadier General Robin Swan, the deputy commanding general for multinational forces in Baghdad, and a "Lieut. Colonel Lather." According to Mohammed, the military offered each family $10,000, but the families refused the money, demanding a formal letter of apology first. "The lieut. colonel kept saying he was sorry for the incident. They said it was a very big tragedy. But they never said they were wrong or they had made a mistake," says...