Every man in the company, it seemed, wanted to dance with her. There were memorable pairings with Armand and Plotnikov and Yury Yanowsky, yet she never found an ideal long-term partner. It was as if no one could match her in all her incarnations.
Her last performance of this season was with Yanowsky in Helen Pickett's Layli o Majnun, a problematic duet that she made work with typical intelligence and devotion. It's not a fitting way for this prima assoluta to go out. The Ballet should give her a proper farewell — perhaps a pas de deux from Onegin? — at next season's "Night of Stars."
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- The BIBC, 'Next Generation,' and more of Boston Ballet's 'Balanchine/Robbins'
It's been a busy week and a half. The first ever Boston International Ballet Competition took place May 12-16 at John Hancock Hall, climaxing with a gala awards ceremony and performance last Monday. On Wednesday, at the Opera House, Boston Ballet presented its second annual "Next Generation" performance.
- Festival Ballet's emotional, sensual Carmen
Although the gypsy girl Carmen is most familiar from the 1875 opera of that name by Georges Bizet, local audiences have also become acquainted with the Carmen performed by Festival Ballet, which was commissioned by them and first appreciated in the 2003-04 season.
- Review: Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker (2010)
When E.T.A. Hoffmann wrote Nutcracker and Mouse King back in 1816, he can hardly have imagined the impact it would have on ballet as we know it.
- Jorma Elo and Anna Sokolow
In silence a man slowly pushes a large, light-filled box across a dark stage. The box is bigger than an outhouse and smaller than a garage, and the light shows through only one side.
- Boston Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
George Balanchine didn’t create a slew of full-length ballets, but it’s easy to see why a setting of Shakespeare’s ever-popular A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of them — and not just because, back home in St. Petersburg, when he was eight, he played a bug in a theater production of the Bard’s moonbeam-muddled comedy.
- Here’s looking at you
Set in the usual small village — this one in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe — Coppélia might look like just another pleasant 19th-century ballet about a boy, a girl, and another girl. But appearances can be deceiving — and that’s theme of this work, whose title character is a life-size mechanical doll.
- Brava Larissa!
The end of an era loomed last night as Boston Ballet opened The Sleeping Beauty — what's likely to be the last story ballet ever to be staged at the Wang Theatre.
- Photos: Boston Ballet presents Black & White (2010)
Boston Ballet's reprise of Jiří Kylián’s Black & White
- Boston Ballet brings back John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has probably inspired as many ballet translations as The Rite of Spring .
- Photos: Boston Ballet's Fancy Free
Boston Ballet performs "Fancy Free" at the Opera House on May 10-20, 2012.
- Boston Ballet reignites Elo, Kylián, and Bruce
Choreographers in America rarely get to rethink and revise their work.
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