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| ORANGE COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Costa Mesa, California November 11�16, 2008 Program A (November 11, 13, & 15 at 7:30pm; and November 16 at 2pm) Possokhov�s Fusion Wheeldon�s Within the Golden Hour Balanchine�s The Four Temperaments Program B (November 12 & 14 at 7:30 pm and November 15 at 2pm) Tomasson�s The Fifth Season Morris� Joyride Elo�s Double Evil |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ANNOUNCES PROGRAMMING FOR
FALL 2008 CHICAGO, NEW YORK, COSTA MESA, CA, AND WASHINGTON, D.C. Critical Dance Blog |
| THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Washington, D.C. November 25�30, 2008 Program A (November 25 & 26 at 7:30pm) Morris� Joyride* Wheeldon�s Within the Golden Hour* Balanchine�s The Four Temperaments * Full-length (November 28, 29, & 30 at 7:30pm; November 29 & 30 at 1:30pm) Tomasson�s Giselle |
| In "Fusion," resident choreographer Yuri Possokhov sought to represent a transformation in his own life ..In the first and third sections, the choreographer set the stage awhirl with unison spinning and jumping, the kind of nonstop, nervous allegro ...A striking middle pas de deux for Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith, however, allowed us to stop, breath and enjoy.
"Within the Golden Hour" became a musical adventure, and it was the highlight of the evening...Four subsequent duets took us on a stimulating journey via different signature phrases. The tall, versatile Smith partnered Katita Waldo in a jaunty pizzicato waltz. Petite Maria Kochetkova melted effortlessly into the firm grip of Joan Boada; here was an astonishingly seamless adagio and a flawless duo who made it hard to tell which of them was instigating the first move. Martyn Garside and Garen Scribner played a frisky game of copycat, while Sarah Van Patten and Pierre-Francois Vilanoba stretched time through lush, ever-lengthening poses. After all this luxurious invention, expectations were high for George Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments"..Alas, it received a mostly bloodless interpretation -- clear but cold. Taras Domitro, a lithe, flexible, boyish principal, provided the exception in the Melancholic variation./ Review It seemed evident that there is nothing these dancers cannot do. Mark Morris' "Joyride," ..One moment a sturdy Martyn Garside was tossing off, yes, fouett�s; another found the group prone on the floor, executing unison leg lifts � la Richard Simmons. There were also flashes of "A Chorus Line," but instead of brandishing top hats and canes, the octet offered rapidly beating feet...The middle section, notable for its quasi-lyrical duets and solos, featured Sarah Van Patten and Genadi Nedvigin languorously stretching and dipping to horn filigrees and oomphy percussion. Next, "Double Evil" ..When the tutu-clad women were not being carried aloft like hood ornaments, they were bowing as stiffly as their skirts, at times recalling the doll-mimicking heroine of "Copp�lia." The men were all speed and suppleness, especially when traversing the stage on their knees. Pascal Molat and Vanessa Zahorian opened the piece with a halting pas de deux, any hint of romanticism interrupted by a provocative hip grind or nervous twitch. "The Fifth Season." Created in 2006 by Tomasson..Katita Waldo and Davit Karapetyan danced two of the six sections, her elegant line a counterpart to his nailed landings. A watered-down tango bit featured Sofiane Sylve partnered by three men: Ivan Popov, Damian Smith and Karapetyan. Emotion did surface in the final "Largo," as Smith hoisted an exquisite Yuan Yuan Tan to an exotic dream world -- one where an arched back and swooping leg seemed nothing less than a pipeline to eternity./ Review |
| Lucky for us, an appearance at the Kennedy Center is also part of this company's birthday celebrations. Armed with two of the best of its festival premieres -- one by Mark Morris, the other by Christopher Wheeldon -- the troupe on Tuesday night gave one of those rare performances that starts strong, continues to build and ends in heady gobs of Chantilly cream and Cointreau.
"The Four Temperaments." It's no surprise the dancers shone ..His dancers have a uniform appearance: linear and lifted up in the ribs. They show us the classical vocabulary stretched to the extreme..Domitro looks young enough to play the title role in "Billy Elliot." This boyishness coupled with his ability to fold himself over backward, or to wheel around and plunge precipitously to the floor, made his solo all the more poignantly desperate. Another moment to relish was the unhurried musical ease in Vanessa Zahorian and Joan Boada's pas de deux in the "Sanguinic" variation, where Paul Hindemith's majestic score seemed to swirl around them like water. Morris's "Joyride" ..With their metallic skin suits adorned with breastplates of flashing LED numbers, the dancers were like artifacts of the digital age, bearing inscrutable countdowns. Yet Morris turned them back into warm bodies. "Within the Golden Hour,"Women blanketed themselves over their men, were whirled around as gently as a sigh. Katita Waldo and Damian Smith found a cha-cha in a section of steadily plucking strings, and turned it into ecstatic play./ Review xxx |