Dance Review: From Tokyo, a âRaymondaâ Hints of the Romance of the Middle Ages
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In the young Tokyo companyâs staging, most of âRaymondaâ â attractively designed by Luisa Spinatelli, although her backdrops tended to be flat fragments of medieval images â was present only in embryo.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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In what kind of grim âbut not for meâ temper  did New York City Ballet assemble âMatters of the Heartâ on Valentineâs Day?
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In her latest program, Neta Pulvermacher reveals not just a trilogy of dances, but also three sides of the choreographer herself.
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Whereas the best-known Romantic ballets rely on supernatural elements to a degree that becomes formulaic, âPaquitaâ occurs in the real world.
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An Americanization of a popular 1996 Japanese film, "Shall We Dance?" is an old-fashioned feel-good fantasy that piles on the euphoria.
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A company strives to persuade dancers and audiences alike that Baroque dance has an appeal that is broader than its historical niche.
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KYOTO, Japan -- His fingers muscled from almost a century of weaving, Yasujiro Yamaguchi worked the humming loom in his private workshop. Patiently lacing golden threads through a warp of auburn silk, he fashioned a bolt of kimono fabric blooming with an autumn garden in shades of tea green, ginger, and plum.
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A number of recent pieces showed how dance can powerfully focus attention on the essentials: the body, movement, human existence in a mysterious and unknowable world.
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Japan has picked Tokyo to bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, giving the capital a head start in an uphill race, half a century after the 1964 games which symbolized the city's rebirth.
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After being unwelcome for centuries, dance has become an increasingly popular part of Christian church services.
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The opera-ballet âZÃ©lindorâ was written for King Louis XV of France in 1745 and repeatedly revived over the next 20 years, but today it seems a slender pastel entertainment, lovely music held together by the thinnest of dramatic threads.
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A close look at American Ballet Theaterâs flashy production of âSwan Lakeâ tells you a lot about its spring season.
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In this conservative kingdom's most conservative city, a sheen of modernity bumps against deep tradition.
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With San Francisco Ballet, the third quarter-century has brought a higher artistic eminence than before.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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In âBreakthrough?â you see the bones of a dance based on inscrutable gestures and tasks, with the lone man, set against a society of playful, seductive women.