Joke Visser’s costumes, which the company’s publicity describes as “haute couture,” are anything but, and the announced “updating” of the opera scenario — Carmen is supposed to be a supermodel, Escamillo a Formula One driver, Don José a soldier but also a businessman — has no apparent relation to what’s on stage. Yet there’s a lot of subtle artistry in this Carmen. Sometimes the right direction requires a little more thought.
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- L’Allegro, fuss and feathers, and the ICA blues
This year we were looking forward to dance performances at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater in the new ICA.
- State of the art
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.
- Lambarena redux
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.
- Dark victory
It’s a good pairing: together, Serenade and La Sylphide write an essay on doomed love
- 2009: The year in dance
You could say there were two tremendous forces that propelled dance into the world of modern culture: the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev and the choreography of Merce Cunningham.
- Theatrics
There’s got to be more to the future than the spectacle of gaudier and gaudier soulless cyberbodies.
- Ebb and flow
The good news is that we still have our own major company, Boston Ballet, and it made its first international tour — to Spain — in more than a decade.
- Balanchinean baubles
George Balanchine’s Jewels got a lukewarm critical reception when it premiered in 1967, though the public loved it right off for its triple-threat bravado.
- Dreaming and remembrance
Two momentous revivals in town showed us how big the category of classical ballet really is.
- Crowning glory
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.
- Weddings
Classical ballet is full of third-act weddings.
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