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ABT's Romeo and Juliet succeeds with strong dance actors
I have a theory that Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet is a perfect starter ballet. It is harder for experienced ballet regulars to work up the same enthusiasm for this ballet.
Like Water For Chocolate: frustratingly earthbound
Wheeldon lacks the imagination to take this story beyond that of a well-crafted adaptation of a beloved movie.
Radiant cast almost awakens Ratmansky's Sleeping Beauty
If the audience response was not very enthusiastic, it's because Ratmansky's Sleeping Beauty four years after its premiere still comes across as more of a museum piece than a living, breathing ballet. This is a Beauty that never really wakes up.
Don Quixote at the Met
Alas, putting two stars (Kochetkova and Cornejo) together is no guarantee of success and that was certainly the case here.
A powerful program of ABT works
Marcel Gomes gave us a Death to remember in Jooss' Green Table.