Innovations Past and Present
The American Ballet Theater’s Fall Season opened at the Koch Theater with a program called “Innovation Past and Present,” which featured two world premieres and a company staple.
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To children or the young at heart, it’s pure magic. “Mermaid,” the beloved Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, reworked and dazzling to behold, is a new original production from K-Ballet Tokyo. To dancers, it’s striking for its choreographic wealth, from the fluttering, mesmerizing delicacy of the petite Mermaid to the synchronous whimsy of Clown-Fish; the mischievous spins and jeté scamperings of a light-hearted, thieving Beggar, to the Prince’s grand tours and scissored leaps juxtaposed against the elegant, suspended arabesques and triumphant fouettés of the Princess.
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The American Ballet Theater’s Fall Season opened at the Koch Theater with a program called “Innovation Past and Present,” which featured two world premieres and a company staple.
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Continua a leggereTo children or the young at heart, it’s pure magic. “Mermaid,” the beloved Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, reworked and dazzling to behold, is a new original production from K-Ballet Tokyo.
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