Dance Review | Ben Munisteri Dance Projects: Ballet With Headstands, and Other Quirky Contrasts
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In a new work, âTerra Nova,â Ben Munisteri sets the fast, difficult beaten steps to a dreamily slow song by Bjork. The effect is both odd and perfect in its place.
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Since I fell for ballet during the 1970s, I find it gratifying once in a while to see what the master choreographers of that era were making by way of new ballets.
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American Ballet Theaterâs new production of âThe Sleeping Beautyâ certainly isnât hidebound by custom.
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American Ballet Theater staged two world premieres by different choreographers : Benjamin Millepiedâs âFrom Here on Outâ and Jorma Eloâs âC. to C.â
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The New York City Ballet has opened its winter repertory season with Balanchineâs âJewels,â which serves as an ideal introduction to what dance theater has to offer.
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The new âEdge/Joy,â to music by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, is a formal departure from Garth Faganâs dancer-driven style and requires extra work from the audience, but itâs rewarding work.
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A refuge for dance is a bastion of growth and stability, but some question its programming.
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Eduardo Vilaro is certainly good at one thing; his well-trained dancers are naturally theatrical and able to flesh out their technique with a sweet, unalloyed enthusiasm.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- All week long at the Rose Garden, the joke was that the judges were handing out 6.0s as if they were going out of style. One night alone, dancers Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto grabbed nine, as many as Brian Boitano managed in his entire career at the US Figure Skating Championships.
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The New York City Balletâs spring season includes works that rank among New York Cityâs greatest treasures, and glowing performances that showcase the wide range of Balanchineâs genius.
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A new exhibition takes a close look at the dÃ©cor behind the dances of Merce Cunningham.
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Configuration, a ballet company that emphasizes works in contemporary styles, displayed lively choreography in its comedic offerings, but was less effective in two serious pieces.
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Iâm at Moro, waiting for my friend Bob Crowley and Nicholas Hytner to come from Christopher Wheeldonâs ballet at Saddler Wells. Narciso Rodriguez did the costumes for the ballet. Heâs in town but I havenât seen him. Too many shows, I guess. Just left Giles Deaconâs show. One of Giles Deaconâs looks.(Jonathan Player for The New [...].
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Anyone who sees Mikhail Baryshnikov in âBeckett Shortsâ must reflect on how far this former ballet luminary has come from his training in Leningrad and his roles in the 19th-century classics.
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This week Dance Theater Workshop presented âSolo Adaptations,â four interpretations over two nights by highly trained performers of Deborah Hayâs dance âRoom.â
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Last February, at the Atlanta Ballet&#39;s annual gala, Lynda Courts saw an item up for auction that she just could not refuse. The evening&#39;s performance was &quot;Romeo and Juliet,&quot; and Romeo himself was on offer.
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The dance theater of Trisha Brown consists of happy paradoxes, and so does my reaction to it, not least to her current program at the Joyce Theater.