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’Tis the season, so it would be churlish to pick holes in Christopher Hampson's glorious confection, adapted from Peter Darrell's iconic work.
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BalletX concluded its 2024 season in its new home, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre across from the Wilma, a theater that had been its home for 18 years. The strongest program by the company this season, it began with a piece by company co-founder, Matthew Neenan, and ended with a world premiere by Margeurite Donlan who has choreographed for BAX once before. The new guy on the program is Takehiro Ueyama, whose “Heroes,” premiered in 2019. Although it is the only noncommissioned work this run, it premiered with new choreography for BAX last summer at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts.
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’Tis the season, so it would be churlish to pick holes in Christopher Hampson's glorious confection, adapted from Peter Darrell's iconic work.
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