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Must-see moves

Flying feet and acrobatic hijinks
Two of this fall's dance performances will tell Halloween-style stories — a reprise of Viktor Plotnikov's THE WIDOW'S BROOM , by Festival Ballet Providence, and a premiere of Miki Ohlsen's DRACULA , by Island Moving Co.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  September 16, 2009
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Dancing in a new direction

Notes from 'Ballets Russes 2009'
The 100th birthday of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes prompted the expected centennial tributes in Boston: a "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1909–1929: Twenty Years That Changed the World of Art" symposium and exhibition at Harvard University in April, and a "Ballets Russes 2009" festival this month.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  June 01, 2009
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Brava Larissa!

Boston Ballet opens The Sleeping Beauty
The end of an era loomed last night as Boston Ballet opened The Sleeping Beauty — what's likely to be the last story ballet ever to be staged at the Wang Theatre.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  April 29, 2009
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Slideshow: Boston Ballet's Jewels

 Boston Ballet performs George Balanchine's Jewels .
Photos from George Balanchine's Jewels, performed by the Boston Ballet.
By ERIC ANTONIOU  |  February 27, 2009
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Crowning glory

Boston Ballet's Jewels at the Wang Theatre.
In 1967, George Balanchine created Jewels for New York City Ballet, and in short order this evening-length triptych — Emeralds , Rubies , and Diamonds — became the crown jewel of 20th-century dance.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  March 04, 2009
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Dancing ballet or not


Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Celebrity Series program at the Cutler Majestic last weekend could have been a primer of the ways not to dance ballet.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  February 10, 2009
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Sizzling frost

Dance heat 2009
The winter dance season starts out promoting international coexistence.
By DEBRA CASH  |  December 29, 2008

Year in Dance: Reusable histories & durable trends

No startling breakthroughs, but that's okay
Conservation is a good thing in these times, and some of the most interesting performances drew on the uses of history — personal history, performance history, and even some inventions that sought to overturn history.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  December 24, 2008
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Not so great

San Francisco's Nutcracker on PBS
Way back in 1977, PBS gave us a Nutcracker with a difference: Mikhail Baryshnikov as an electrifying Nutcracker/Cavalier and willowy Gelsey Kirkland as an older-than-usual Clara, as the Sugar Plum Fairy.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  December 02, 2008
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Dynamos

Philadanco at the ICA
The four pieces on the program that Philadanco brought for its Boston debut last weekend at the Institute for Contemporary Art were all-dance numbers showcasing a troupe of highly polished, supercharged dancers.  
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  November 18, 2008
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State of the art

Boston Ballet’s third ‘Night of Stars’
Maybe it’s the economy, but Boston Ballet’s third-annual season-opening gala was a sober evening, without the orchestral overture that graced the first two affairs.  
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 17, 2008
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Floor show

Sara Hook at Harvard
Sara Hook explains the title of her cabaret piece Salad Days as a reference to youth and indiscretion.  
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  October 01, 2008
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Where the chips fell

Marjorie Morgan, Karl Cronin, Lucinda Childs, and Boston Ballet
Dance history reverberated across Boston during the past few weeks, affirming that how we live now owes a lot to how we’ve chosen to remember — and forget.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 28, 2008
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Russian revel?

Looking ahead to Ballets Russes 2009
The Russians are coming!
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 23, 2008
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Mastering the masterpieces

Boston Ballet takes on Balanchine, Tudor, and Tharp
It’s not exactly a trip down Memory Lane, but this weekend Boston Ballet is revisiting some pieces and choreographers it hasn’t performed in the Mikko Nissinen era.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 21, 2008
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Balancing act

Interview: Mikko Nissinen and Boston Ballet
It’s been quite a year for Boston Ballet.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 14, 2008
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Decoding Balanchine

Nancy Goldner on Mr. B
Nancy Goldner’s diminutive new book about George Balanchine’s choreography is deceptively readable.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 06, 2008

Oppositions

The Kirov's Balanchine at City Center
The end of a three-week, thousands-of-miles-from-home season is never the right time to assess a dance company.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 30, 2009
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Scenes from the city

The Kirov at City Center, plus Jerome Robbins, Stephen Petronio, and Cloud Gate
I missed more things in two and a half days last week than I managed to take in, so whatever I might infer about dance in the New York vortex could have come out a different way if I’d reversed my priorities.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  April 08, 2008
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Pas de divorce

Opera House captures Boston Ballet’s heart
It’s been a roller-coaster six weeks at Boston Ballet.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  April 02, 2008
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Theatrics

Boston Ballet’s ‘Next Generation’
There’s got to be more to the future than the spectacle of gaudier and gaudier soulless cyberbodies.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  March 12, 2008
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Wings of desire

Samuel Bak’s ‘Remembering Angels’
Half a millennium after her birth, in the wake of world wars and genocides, she’s become timeless.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 30, 2008
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Moonbeams

Boston Ballet illumines George Balanchine’s  A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a dizzy dance of a drama, meandering mystifyingly between May Eve and Midsummer Eve under a moon that goes from new to full swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s bow.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 24, 2008
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Ebb and flow

Dance: 2007 in review
The good news is that we still have our own major company, Boston Ballet, and it made its first international tour — to Spain — in more than a decade.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  December 17, 2007
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Holiday favorites

Revive the tradition
For many of us, the holidays would not be the same without the familiar melodies and musical traditions we’ve grown to love.
By EMILY PARKHURST  |  November 28, 2007
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Dark victory

Boston Ballet in Serenade and La Sylphide
It’s a good pairing: together, Serenade and La Sylphide write an essay on doomed love
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 31, 2007
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Silver lining

Island Moving Co. celebraates its 25th year
“It’s truly a celebration of IMC — the feats and defeats that they’ve gone through,” Bolger reiterated.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  July 10, 2007
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Not quite Nina

Ananiashvili and the State Ballet of Georgia look to find their footing
On hearing the opening notes of the Kronos Quartet composition and seeing the dancers lit in sunny yellow, I feared we were about to be subjected to one of those “up with people” ballets.
By JANINE PARKER  |  May 07, 2009
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Tragic tropes and anti-tropes

NYCB's Romeo , Boston Ballet's Giselle
The only question to ask about a new Romeo and Juliet, besides “Why?”, is “Why New York City Ballet?”
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 18, 2007
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Made in USA

Festival Ballet stages the American Masters
In choosing ballets from three American choreographers for the American Masters program, Mihailo Djuric has looked to two classics and one world premiere.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  April 18, 2007

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