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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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Review: Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center

Tidal wave
Gotham was awash in dance during early January as the annual Dance on Camera Festival coincided with the conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (better known as APAP, the national bookers' convention).
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  January 20, 2009
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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
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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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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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Winged feet

Dance around town
Dance highlights from the fall season.
By DEBRA CASH  |  September 11, 2008
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Prodigies old and new

Tharp’s Rabbit and Rogue at ABT, Ratmansky and Robbins at NYCB
Tharp’s dances almost invariably have a euphoric effect on their first audiences, even when they miss their mark and don’t hold up over the long run.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 10, 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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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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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
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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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Above the fray

Parsons Dance's musical moves
Modern dance choreographers from Martha Graham onward have sometimes been described as too abstract or inaccessible.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  January 22, 2008
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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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Chris and friends

Wheeldon’s Morphoses at City Center
The hype was huge, but Wheeldon seems to have a modest agenda.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  October 29, 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  |  June 27, 2007
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Two tales retold

NYCB’s The Nightingale and the Rose, ABT’s Sleeping Beauty
The big ballet companies are shackled tighter than ever to the idea of the story ballet.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 12, 2007
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That’s amore

The Light in the Piazza; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Love’s Labour’s Lost
The Light in the Piazza is an ambitious if old-fashioned musical.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 05, 2007
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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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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
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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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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
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L’Allegro, fuss and feathers, and the ICA blues

 A year in dance
This year we were looking forward to dance performances at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater in the new ICA.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  December 20, 2006
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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
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Monuments and miniatures

Bernstein at Harvard; Central Square weekend
Harvard University’s Music Department and the Office for the Arts celebrated Leonard Bernstein’s work last weekend with “Boston to Broadway,” a festive symposium surrounded by exhibitions and concerts.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  October 17, 2006
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Caravan

American ballet music at Monadnock; a young Latin American conductor at Tanglewood
James Bolle’s final concert of Monadnock Music’s summer season began with a work that had had its premiere in Keene, New Hampshire, 70 years and three days earlier.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  August 30, 2006
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Lambarena redux

Pacific Northwest Ballet and Choreftes at JP, plus BB 2006 – 2007 and a DVD surprise
All summer long I’ve had the phrase “Do the Lambarena” running through my head, as if it were a dance craze, like the la-dee-dah or the lambada.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  August 23, 2006

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