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Boston Ballet’s ‘World Passions’; Streb Brave at the ICA
Boston Ballet’s artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, wants us to think of his company as utterly contemporary, but it’s a tricky balance to pull off.
By
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| October 28, 2009
Both ears and the tail for this Carmen
Boston Ballet's 'World Passions'
"World Passions," the collection of four works that Boston Ballet opened at the Opera House last night, was more pleasant than passionate until Kathleen Breen Combes sashayed out as the title character in Jorma Elo's Carmen .
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| October 28, 2009
Terpsichore's delight
A season of foot (and body) work
There's no end to variety to the fall's dance season, from a Boston Ballet classic to Hawaiian hula and "extreme action" acrobatics.
By
DEBRA CASH
| September 14, 2009
Setting the Wang on fire
Boston Ballet's 'Ballets Russes'
Burning down the house” is a metaphor, but at the Wang Theatre last weekend, the Boston Fire Department was on hand to ensure that it remained one.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 20, 2009
Slideshow: Ballets Russes at the Wang
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration
Boston Ballet performs "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration" at the Wang Theater
By
ERIC ANTONIOU
| May 15, 2009
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
Adam and Eve
It's boy-meets-girl at New York City Ballet
A day at New York City Ballet that starts with a matinee of Coppélia and ends with a Balanchine evening might seem to offer merely the contrast between classic and modern, old and new.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| January 13, 2009
Smaller is better
Boston Ballet's Nutcracker at the Opera House
Next fall, Boston Ballet will move all its performing operations to the Opera House from Citi Performing Arts Center's immense and unfriendly Wang Theatre.
By
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| December 05, 2008
Wising up
James Kudelka’s Cinderella at Boston Ballet
Sergei Prokofiev’s two classical ballets invariably find Boston Ballet playing the dating game.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| October 22, 2008
Big pond, little pond
Swan Lake in Boston and Providence
Swan Lake is ballet’s prima ballerina because, 131 years after its Moscow premiere, it’s still poised on pointe.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 07, 2008
Quo vadis?
Boston Ballet’s ‘Next Generation’
“Next Generation” is the kind of ballet-program title that might have you asking yourself what happened to “This Generation."
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 10, 2008
At long last love?
Boston Ballet hitches up with John Cranko’s Romeo & Juliet
Boston Ballet has been playing the Romeo and Juliet dating game for almost 25 years now.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| February 20, 2008
Twinkle, twinkle
Boston Ballet’s ‘Night of Stars’
For some 15 years now, Boston Ballet has danced like a major international ballet company, and Mikko Nissinen wants to be sure everybody’s aware of that.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| January 31, 2008
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
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
The reign in Spain
Boston Ballet on tour
If only the company could return to the local appreciation its international achievement deserves.
By
CHRISTINE TEMIN
| August 07, 2007
Love after death
Boston Ballet redeems Giselle
At 166 years old and sporting miles of white tulle, Giselle can look pretty moldy.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 14, 2007
Love and death
Boston Ballet's "Classic Balanchine" has all the basics
“Classic Balanchine” as opposed to . . . “Jazz Balanchine”? “Porno Balanchine”? What was the alternative?
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 09, 2007
Sight and insight
Boston Ballet’s ‘New Visions’
“New Visions” is the kind of title ballet-company directors come up with for programs that are sort of new and are hoping for vision.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 07, 2007
Dreaming and remembrance
Boston Ballet’s Midsummer, Boston Conservatory’s Dark Elegies
Two momentous revivals in town showed us how big the category of classical ballet really is.
By
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| February 21, 2007
Stairway to Paradise?
Boston Ballet's Gala performance
It’s a mark of Mikko Nissinen’s ambitions for Boston Ballet that last night’s benefit Gala Performance at the Wang Theatre ended with such a défilé .
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| October 26, 2006
Impossible dream?
Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote has yet to earn its knighthood
Don Quixote has been a watershed work for Boston Ballet.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| October 25, 2006
Up and down
Boston Ballet looks for direction
Dance is all about direction.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 18, 2006
Hit and miss
Visiting and home teams swing for the fences
Boston Ballet didn’t need Mark Morris’s blessing in 1999, and it doesn’t need it now.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 22, 2006
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