Love and Loss
The moment arrived two-thirds into the program, near the peak of Donald Byrd’s “Love and Loss.” For more than an hour, the beautiful bodies on screen had been doing eloquent things, to curiously numbing effect.
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A world premiere by Cathy Marston had been a major draw card for the Queensland Ballet's new triple bill, however, there was a reverence to the evening that no one could have predicted. This performance of “Trilogy” came a day after artistic director Li Cunxin announced his retirement at the end of the year due to ill health. It was a bittersweet preface to the evening. I was not alone in cherishing “Trilogy” with a newfound respect for what both Li and his wife Mary (company ballet mistress, who is also retiring) have done for the company over the past eleven years.
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The moment arrived two-thirds into the program, near the peak of Donald Byrd’s “Love and Loss.” For more than an hour, the beautiful bodies on screen had been doing eloquent things, to curiously numbing effect.
Continue ReadingSince its founding in 2012 by Benjamin Millepied, L.A. Dance Project has not been lacking in talent, ideas, or, fortunately for them, funding, something that most dance troupes desperately need.
Continue ReadingWhen a choreographer takes on volcanic and iconic works from American musical giants like Leonard Bernstein and John Adams one move they could take is to cool them down with a couple of more soothing European works in between.
Continue ReadingIf you are an insect in the superorder Endopterygota, you have the super ability to experience complete metamorphosis. You can transform from the four stages of life—egg, larva, pupa, adult—in a process called holometabolism.
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What did you intend to mean by saying “the differences between the two were ‘inconceivable’”? unmistakeable?