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JEFFREY GANTZ

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Ach, du lieber

Revels rides with Siegfried and Sankt Nick
If your name is Susan, you might not want to sit too close to the stage at the 36th annual Christmas Revels .
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  December 20, 2006

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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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Bodies and souls

A year in art
Preserved flayed corpses at the Museum of Science, Americans in Paris at the Museum of Fine Arts, underground art at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, beavers at Mass College of Art — it was that kind of year, capped off by the arrival of the new Institute of Contemporary Art.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  December 19, 2006

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Where’s the magic?

Looking for enchantment from Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker
The hook for Boston Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker this year is “more magic.”
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  December 05, 2006

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Casino Royale I

Would you believe an American James Bond
Cinema buffs and Bond fans know that the Casino Royale  that’s opening in theaters this week isn’t the first screen version of Ian Fleming’s novel.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  November 17, 2006

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Water and air

The Kirov’s Swan Lake  
Bred in the city that Peter the Great built on a marsh to be Russia’s window onto Europe, the Kirov Ballet is equal parts water, air, and Euclid.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  November 17, 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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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

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Formidable!

Charles Aznavour, the Opera House, September 21, 2006
He’s a tough kind of flâneur, and the love that’s his almost-exclusive subject doesn’t come easily.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  September 22, 2006

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Sifting Shakespeare

Ron Rosenbaum on Bottom, bottomlessness, the Bard, and . . . Ron
“For the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the bottom of God’s secrets.” That quotation from the 1557 Geneva Bible’s First Corinthians is the unlikely foundation of Ron Rosenbaum’s The Shakespeare Wars .
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  September 19, 2006

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Strong, silent type

Piero della Francesca, Italy’s international artist of mystery
A mirror as well as a shadow, Piero is Renaissance Italy’s international artist of mystery, by turns painful and rejoicing, always involuntary.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  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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The girls of summer

Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell at the MFA and the Peabody Essex  
Americans, Henry James wrote in 1867, “can pick and choose and assimilate and in short (æsthetically, etc.) claim our property wherever we find it.”
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  August 10, 2006

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War in art heaven

Sterling and Stephen duke it out at the Clark Institute
Belying its placid title, “The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings” is the record of a collecting war whose energy all but obliterates the show’s eye-popping art. Slideshow: Paintings from The Clark Brothers Collection
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  July 28, 2006

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Pillow talk

Nacho Duato, Ballets Russes , Suzanne Farrell, Emanuel Gat
There were baby ballerinas on screen and on stage for the first full weekend of Jacob’s Pillow 2006.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  July 11, 2006

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Stacked deck

The Royal Ballet’s Manon
Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is Romeo and Juliet ’s ugly stepsister.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  June 21, 2006

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Second thoughts

Boston Ballet’s Carmen , round two
When Yeats wrote, “How can we know the dancer from the dance?”, he probably wasn’t thinking of the effect different casts can have on the performance of a ballet.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 25, 2006

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Da Vinci Code

Three movie tie-in discs
You’d have expected this trio to arrive as a boxed set, but for reasons even Dan Brown might be hard-pressed to explain, the Da Vinci Code soundtrack is on Decca instead of Sony.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 23, 2006

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Tinkling symbols

Ron Howard illustrates The Da Vinci Code
That Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has become a worldwide phenomenon attests to the worldwide yearning for a better truth than the one we have.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 19, 2006

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Up and down

Boston Ballet looks for direction
Dance is all about direction.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 18, 2006
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