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BalletX "Hot Summer Series' (2nd review)
A spunky newcomer finds confidence
BalletX has segued from an intriguing experiment into a mature local institution with a viewpoint and edge all its own, as this spunky little troupe demonstrated in its second summer program as the Wilma Theater's resident dance company.
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BalletX "œHot Summer Series": Neenan and Gates (1st review)
Sometimes older is better
Jodie Gates's new but dreary Inevitable Kiss contrasted sharply with Matthew Neenan's older but inventive and prop-driven Broke Apart in the BalletX “Hot Summer Series.”
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Pina Bausch: a personal memory
She made dance theater out of life
Pina Bausch, who died June 30, changed our perception of ballet, modern dance and theater. Wherever she went, she soaked up the essences of a community and then held what she absorbed back up to it like a mirror— as I discovered firsthand when she visited Arizona.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "La Sylphide' (2nd review)
Why La Sylphide (yawn) survives
In theory, we're all anxious to see our local ballet troupe perform new and experimental work. The truth is that nothing suits ballet dancers or their audience better than these oldies but goodies with corny nonsensical stories, big sets, plenty of costumes and character parts for witches and zombies and crazy folk of all kind.
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Olive Prince's 'Serenade'
The agony of a lopsided relationship
In ten powerful minutes, Olive Prince's erotic and psychologically perverse Serenade brought racing back some of the most painful (as well as some of the best) moments of my existence— moments that, like the intense experience watching her choreography, I wouldn't replace for the life of me.
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Jaamil Kosoko's "Virus' at UArts
Love among the robots
Jaamil Kosoko's compelling but cluttered Virus purports to show how technology distorts identity and human interaction while leaving vestiges of our humanity intact. Call it a good idea in need of further development.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Sylphide' and "Barber Violin Concerto' (
And the moral of the story is....
The Pennsylvania Ballet's much-hyped restaging of Bournonville's La Sylphide floundered in comparison to the brilliantly executed company premiere of Peter Martins's Barber Violin Concerto.
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"Remembering Daniel Nagrin' at Susan Hess Modern Dance
The man who danced (almost) forever
No other dancer commanded all the characteristics of the soloist Daniel Nagrin, who died last December at 91. But two of his protégés, Shane O'Hara and Donald Laney, gave an astonishing little concert in tribute to their incomparable mentor.
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Anne-Marie Mulgrew's "SALT'
More than you ever wanted to know about salt
Anne-Marie Mulgrew's SALT is an ambitious choreographic exploration of one of the world's most vital commodities. But in its lack of focus and its technical imprecision, it comes across more like a scatterbrained doctoral thesis.
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5 minute read
National Dance Company of Spain 2 at Annenberg (2nd Review)
A thousand years of tenderness
In three modern works by Nacho Duato, the National Dance Company of Spain's junior troupe displayed incredible technical proficiency but achieved a fullness of sensibility only in one of them.
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