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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Nutcracker': Three generations
To see with the eyes of a child
At what age should you introduce a child to The Nutcracker? And do you take her for her benefit, or yours?
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"Black Swan': a ballet/horror film (1st review)
And you thought ballet was a tough career
Black Swan purports to be a film about ballet. Is ballet really this vulgar, violent and tasteless?
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Parsons Dance at Annenberg
Hold the philosophy, pass the joy
David Parsons doesn't use dance to explore ideas. With Parsons, an evening of dance is just an evening of dance— and very enjoyable nevertheless.
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The plump dancer and the 'New York Times' critic
Art and sensitivity: If a dancer's too heavy, should a critic say so?
The New York Times dance critic has been vilified for commenting on a dancer's weight. Was he insensitive? Maybe. But that sort of sensitivity is the enemy of art— especially the art of dance.
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BalletX: Ochoa, Del Cuore and Neenan (2nd review)
A ballet troupe with a future
Now in its fifth year, BalletX has assembled a consistently talented cadre of strong modern ballet dancers, commissioning new work and tapping selections from a growing repertoire.
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BalletX: Ochoa, Del Cuore and Neenan (1st review)
Stories and pictures without words or paint
Revivals by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Matthew Neenan have ripened with age. The same might be true a few years from now for Tobin Del Cuore's Beside Myself.
BalletX 2010 Fall Series: Ochoa, Still @ Life; Del Cuore, Beside Myself; Neenan, Frequencies. Through November 21, 2010 at the Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. (at Spruce). (215) 546-7824 or www.balletx.org.
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4 minute read
"Kaidan Insuto' by Daniele Strawmyre's readySetGo
Japanese ghosts in Kensington
In a suitably ghostly abandoned warehouse in Kensington, Daniele Strawmyre and her readySetGo dance company presented Kaidan Insuto, an engrossing performance installation work based on ghost tales from 17th-Century Japan.
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Paul Taylor at Annenberg (2nd review)
Sound and fury, signifying…. what?
The great modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor is 80 years old and dripping with honors. But Phantasmagoria, his newest piece, couldn't be weirder or less like the work that has made him a legend.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Carmen'
Don José: Victim, villain or jerk?
The opening scene of Roland Petit's Carmen suggests immense bottled-up passion and lust. Unfortunately, that passion is never released in the ballet's remaining two scenes.
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Paul Taylor at Annenberg (1st review)
Paul Taylor, between the body and the spirit
Paul Taylor has been choreographing for more than half a century— long enough to gently tweak the pretensions of modern dance even as he seriously examines the interplay between the spiritual and the carnal.
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3 minute read