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TANGO BUENOS AIRES Tango Fuego y Pasion
Published: 01/17/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Articles
Tango and Buenos Aires. No other dance and place are so inextricably bound together or so readily conjure up an iconic ethos. That sensibility was readily on display for full houses at the Segerstrom Center this week with TANGO BUENOS AIRES.
THE ROYAL DANISH BALLET In NAPOLI
Published: 05/30/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Reviews
The Royal Danish Ballet is currently on tour with their time travelling version of Napoli, which is set on the island of Capri in the 1950s. This version owes a debt to Italian cinema and features brilliant new music by Louise Alenius for Act Two.
The Joffrey Ballet: A Nutcracker Steeped in Americana
Published: 12/03/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Reviews
I first saw the Joffrey’s Nutcracker more than fifteen years ago It struck me then as being a particularly beautiful production.The staging and design for Waltz of the Snowflakes alone was well worth the price of admission. Happily, that is still true.It was good to see that the Currier and Ives vision of Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino hadn’t lost any of its stunning picturesque qualities in the absence of the company’s two original founders. The programs at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion