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An Opera Lover's Feast On Screen And Radio
Courant Staff WriterThe public has spoken. Opera lovers nationwide turned out in massive numbers for last season's high-def simulcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. So the world-famous opera company is presenting a new season of simulcasts and encores from...Tags: Music Theater, Cinderella, Robert Lepage, James Levine, Richard Strauss
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San Francisco Ballet's B side may contain some of its best
Special to the Chicago TribuneHelgi Tomasson's "On a Theme of Paganini" is an adroit, lively example of the neoclassical mode he inherited from George Balanchine, a stately, elegant, straightforward work frequently graced with his own unique stamp. Framed at the start and the end...Tags: John Adams, Dancing, Dance, Joffrey Ballet, George Balanchine
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Dance schedule
September Sept. 8 Metro DC Dance Awards, Kennedy Sept. 8-29 Roadhouse, Kennedy Sept. 11 Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular, AACC Sept. 11-12 Witness, Kennedy Sept. 13 Pure, Dance Sept. 18-19 Drift, Kennedy Sept. 18-20 The Break/s, Kennedy Sept. 20-21 Eiko...Tags: Suzanne Farrell, John F. Kennedy, Warner Theatre, Merce Cunningham, Dancing
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DANCE
Among the dance highlights this season: The Kirov Ballet, now more than 250 years old, will visit the Southland twice before year's end. Other season highlights:
'Ocean'
Before his death, John Cage planned to write a score for a large orchestra deployed...Tags: Dance, Pina Bausch, Janet Jackson, Arts, Paul Taylor
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Steps toward a national presence
Special to the Chicago TribuneWith just two ventures, the Harris Theater signaled the dance world it would honor that Chicago dictum to make no small plans. In 2006, it brought back the New York City Ballet after a 26-year absence, and this week it hosts the San Francisco Ballet's...Tags: Dancing, Dance, Twyla Tharp, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paul Taylor
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Is the House of Helgi the best ballet troupe in the U.S.?
Special to the Chicago TribuneIts long, rich history notwithstanding, the San Francisco Ballet that arrives at the Harris Theater on Tuesday is very much the House of Helgi. Acclaimed artistic director Helgi Tomasson took over the venerable company nearly a quarter of a century ago,...Tags: Dance, Dancing, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, Joffrey Ballet
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A leisurely lunch with "Fandango" author Sandy Hill
Times Staff WriterMark Morris breezes into Sandy Hill's Los Olivos ranch house, necklaces dangling, a shawl draped loosely about his shoulders and dance company directors Nancy Umanoff and Lauren Cherubini in tow. Once dubbed "our Mozart of modern dance" by the...Tags: Dancing, Dance, Ernest Hemingway, Christopher Hitchens, Washington Post Company
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This Dido lives and dies a dancer
Times Music CriticIn 1988, Mark Morris was invited to make his dance company a resident ensemble at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. As part of Brussels' opera company, he was told to think as big as he liked. He did, and that was, for him, a new opportunity. During his...Tags: Dance, Dancing, Music Theater, Movies, Music
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Everybody dance now
Special to amNewYorkThanks to the popularity of guilty pleasure TV shows like "Dancing with the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance," dance fever has struck the nation -- and New York City is no exception. Here are our picks of the city's hottest dance classes and where...Tags: Dance, Hip Hop, Alvin Ailey, Personal Service, Television
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Harris Theater helps fund 'Romeo and Juliet' ballet
Tribune criticThe Harris Theater is joining a consortium of international arts venues to fund a $1.1 million commission for choreographer Mark Morris' new "Romeo and Juliet," set to Sergei Prokofiev's long-lost original score. The new version of the classic, featuring...Tags: Dance, Lincoln Center, Arts, Culture, Dancing
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Mark Morris moves with confidence
Special to The TimesWITH TV fare that incorporates dance heightening audience awareness of the art form, Mark Morris would seem ideal to star in a reality show. Not only could cameras capture the peripatetic choreographer in rehearsals and on the road with his Mark Morris...Tags: Harry Partch, Yo-Yo Ma, Music Industry, Lincoln Center, Television Industry
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Morris and the master at ABT
Special to NewsdayGeorge Balanchine loved the Russian tradition of imperial ballet in which he was raised. In "Symphonie Concertante," reprised this season after several years, a large corps of women frames, embellishes and kneels before a prince and two queens. The...Tags: Dance, Dancing, Virgil Thomson, Classical Music, Imperial and Royal Matters
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