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July 11, 2005

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Larger Than Life in this week's Danceview Times, a review of Veronika Part and Marcelo Gomes in Swan Lake.


Part’s Odile is big, raw-edged and weirdly gleeful. She’s like some over the top forties movie villainess, perhaps Tamara Toumanova playing a communist double agent, laughing as she drugs the hero. You never knew evil could be this much fun.

Not available on the web, but in the current issue of Dance Now, a review of Boston Ballet's La Sylphide.

The ending tableau of Madge standing over James’ body was a bleak image of empty triumph and there was dead silence in the audience. [Merrill] Ashley eschewed a theatrical interpretation and paradoxically she was absolutely riveting.

Posted by Leigh Witchel at July 11, 2005 3:45 PM

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