Tag: ‘ballet’

  • Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, February 17, 2012 [Review]

     Guide: Modern Dance in America I had the pleasure of seeing Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the national ballet company of Monaco, perform a program of two long works, Altro Canto and Opus 40, at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Both works were created by the company’s director since the early 1990s, Jean-Christophe Maillot. Maillot’s vocabulary is far [...]

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  • A Very Brief History of Ballet

    To give context for the Modern dancers and choreographers I’m surveying (see previous posts), I’m gathering some information about the history of ballet—which was perceived as the antithesis to Modern dance, until choreographers began synthesizing the two streams in the latter half of the 20th century. This division has broken down over the last few decades, [...]

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