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January 28, 2007
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Tributes on the Tribute to Kirstein program at NYCB including the NYCB premiere of Tribute by Christopher d'Amboise:
The musical selections testified to Bach’s range and the choreographic quotations to Balanchine’s range. That also meant things didn’t always follow and the piece was quite derivative. Without particularly looking for them, I caught segments cribbed from “Symphony in C” and “Concerto Barocco.” D’Amboise’s take on Balanchine style also got fussy; his choreography tended to feminize the men. Still, “Tribute” was created for the school as a teaching ballet, and one is more tolerant of the derivative nature of a ballet for that purpose. It was an amiable but inconsequential work that was better section by section than as a whole.
Posted by Leigh Witchel at January 28, 2007 10:22 PM
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