Harlem, Funk and a bit of Schubert

By Hilary Stroh, 08 March 2018

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“fun, frolicsome and light-hearted”

Reviewed at Wilma Theater, Philadelphia on 7 March 2018

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The ballet culminates with fouettés, bravura leaps from the oversized ensemble and a rousing finish with all 44 dancers onstage. It was an exuberant end to an intelligent, satisfying production, both of thought and movement.

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Jaime Robles, 27th March

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Jaime Robles, 24th April

Benjamin Freemantle danced the opening solo, gorgeously, in the role of the grandfather as a dreamy young Adonis.

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Hilary Stroh

Hilary is an independent scholar and academic historian, based in DC. She has a background in violin, piano and ballet. Educated at Dublin and Cambridge, she has recently published her first two books.

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