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Setting the Wang on fire

Boston Ballet's 'Ballets Russes'
Burning down the house” is a metaphor, but at the Wang Theatre last weekend, the Boston Fire Department was on hand to ensure that it remained one.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 20, 2009
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Slideshow: Ballets Russes at the Wang

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration
Boston Ballet performs "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration" at the Wang Theater
By ERIC ANTONIOU  |  May 15, 2009
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The real deal

Boston Ballet's Sleeping Beauty
Nineteenth-century ballets are not all alike. But Boston Ballet's Sleeping Beauty is the real McCoy.
By BY MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  April 29, 2009
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Brava Larissa!

Boston Ballet opens The Sleeping Beauty
The end of an era loomed last night as Boston Ballet opened The Sleeping Beauty — what's likely to be the last story ballet ever to be staged at the Wang Theatre.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  April 29, 2009
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Slideshow: Boston Ballet's Jewels

 Boston Ballet performs George Balanchine's Jewels .
Photos from George Balanchine's Jewels, performed by the Boston Ballet.
By ERIC ANTONIOU  |  February 27, 2009
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Crowning glory

Boston Ballet's Jewels at the Wang Theatre.
In 1967, George Balanchine created Jewels for New York City Ballet, and in short order this evening-length triptych — Emeralds , Rubies , and Diamonds — became the crown jewel of 20th-century dance.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  March 04, 2009
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Adam and Eve

It's boy-meets-girl at New York City Ballet
A day at New York City Ballet that starts with a matinee of Coppélia and ends with a Balanchine evening might seem to offer merely the contrast between classic and modern, old and new.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 13, 2009
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State of the art

Boston Ballet’s third ‘Night of Stars’
Maybe it’s the economy, but Boston Ballet’s third-annual season-opening gala was a sober evening, without the orchestral overture that graced the first two affairs.  
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 17, 2008
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Mastering the masterpieces

Boston Ballet takes on Balanchine, Tudor, and Tharp
It’s not exactly a trip down Memory Lane, but this weekend Boston Ballet is revisiting some pieces and choreographers it hasn’t performed in the Mikko Nissinen era.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 21, 2008
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Big pond, little pond

Swan Lake  in Boston and Providence
Swan Lake is ballet’s prima ballerina because, 131 years after its Moscow premiere, it’s still poised on pointe.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 07, 2008
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At long last love?

Boston Ballet hitches up with John Cranko’s Romeo & Juliet
Boston Ballet has been playing the Romeo and Juliet dating game for almost 25 years now.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  February 20, 2008
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Twinkle, twinkle

Boston Ballet’s ‘Night of Stars’
For some 15 years now, Boston Ballet has danced like a major international ballet company, and Mikko Nissinen wants to be sure everybody’s aware of that.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 31, 2008
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Moonbeams

Boston Ballet illumines George Balanchine’s  A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a dizzy dance of a drama, meandering mystifyingly between May Eve and Midsummer Eve under a moon that goes from new to full swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s bow.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 24, 2008
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Love after death

Boston Ballet redeems Giselle
At 166 years old and sporting miles of white tulle, Giselle can look pretty moldy.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 14, 2007
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Love and death

Boston Ballet's "Classic Balanchine" has all the basics
“Classic Balanchine” as opposed to . . . “Jazz Balanchine”? “Porno Balanchine”? What was the alternative?
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 09, 2007
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Sight and insight

Boston Ballet’s ‘New Visions’
“New Visions” is the kind of title ballet-company directors come up with for programs that are sort of new and are hoping for vision.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  March 07, 2007
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Stairway to Paradise?

Boston Ballet's Gala performance
It’s a mark of Mikko Nissinen’s ambitions for Boston Ballet that last night’s benefit Gala Performance at the Wang Theatre ended with such a défilé .
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 26, 2006
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Impossible dream?

Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote has yet to earn its knighthood
Don Quixote has been a watershed work for Boston Ballet.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 25, 2006
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Lambarena redux

Pacific Northwest Ballet and Choreftes at JP, plus BB 2006 – 2007 and a DVD surprise
All summer long I’ve had the phrase “Do the Lambarena” running through my head, as if it were a dance craze, like the la-dee-dah or the lambada.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  August 23, 2006

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