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Overheard after the curtain drop on “Theme and Variations,” the opener of English National Ballet’s latest mixed bill: “Well, it was very Balanchine!”
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Teeming with riotous colors, an exhilarating original score, and dancing of the highest, indeed, most glorious order, “Frida,” performed by Dutch National Ballet and choreographed by the insightful Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, not only proves that story ballet is alive and well, but can also be told in new and ingenious ways. Such was the case last weekend when DNB, under the artistic direction of Ted Brandsen, made its Music Center debut with the American premiere of “Frida,” the full-length dance drama that grew out of Lopez Ochoa’s one-act, “Broken Wings,” and brings Mexican surrealist painter, Frida Kahlo, to ebullient, albeit, tortured life.
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Overheard after the curtain drop on “Theme and Variations,” the opener of English National Ballet’s latest mixed bill: “Well, it was very Balanchine!”
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