The ballet opens with a performance you can take in with your eyes closed. It ends with a performance that makes you feel like your eyes are closed and your thoughts are dancing before you. Boston is celebrating the centenial of Leonard Bernstein who also happened to be a lifelong …
We survived the first week back to school. Take the edge off by making some weekend plans that will have you feeling fancy free, laughing, connecting and just having a good time. Boston Ballet’s Genius at Play opened last night and it is a playful, colourful, refreshing program. This is a …
We have been lucky enough to have a splendidly hot summer in New England this year but summer’s heat has taken it’s toll on me and I have a feeling I am not alone. All the high school and college students are back at school so the pools are all …
Luzia is in town. Cirque du Soleil brings their dream version of Mexico to life under the big top or grand chapiteau at Suffolk Downs.
Dirty Dancing on Tour comes to Boston. It is a wild ride down memory lane with Baby, Johnny Castle, Penny and all the classic songs.
La Sylphide, by Boston Ballet, is a time travel back into some of ballet’s history. The performance at the Boston Opera House is one of my favourites this year.
I was once a small child waiting in the wings. The heat and glow of the stage lights pressing against my face as I waited for the music’s cue to step out onto the small stage at the University of Waterloo at Carousel Dance with an audience full of eager …
Jagged Little Pill has officially opened at the American Repertory Theatre. Jagged Little Pill incorporates selections from Alanis Morissette’s music. This world-premiere musical is directed by Diane Paulus. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody wrote the book for the screenplay. Music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt and choreography is by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
Boston Ballet performs Classic Balanchine in their latest performance. This wonderful collection of some of Balanchine’s work is a great way to see some of ballet’s greatest contemporary works.
Part of the fun of going to a story ballet is decoding the tale that is being mimed-out on stage. For parts of it, you know the story already or the pantomime is clear as day. For other more subtle moments, you might catch a new detail that you never noticed before. That is part of the magic of these classic stories that are handed down and shared generation after generation. Boston Ballet performs Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty. This version of The Sleeping Beauty was first performed by the Imperial Ballet in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg Russia. Seeing it performed as it was performed then (with slightly more improved pointe shoe technology, newer costumes and sets, and slight tweaks to the movement and staging), is like walking into history and a storybook in one.
