It was a good night at the ballet — a very good night. Playing to a packed house for one performance only, the Joffrey Ballet showed an easy command of the physically demanding and highly technical program it boldly presented March 12 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The calling card of the evening was the line-up of dance makers — a virtual Who’s Who in the new … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
Nakamatsu, Hotoda shine at ACO’s third concert
March 9 marked the third concert in a series of conductor tryouts for the post of Atlantic Classical Orchestra. This time it was the turn of Rei Hotoda, associate conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra and a woman with credentials equal to those of the two men heard and seen on the podium so far this season. She opened her program with Mozart’s Symphony No. 32 (in G, K. … [Read more...]
Stellar Field anchors charming ‘Doris’
Sally Field never went away. Her performance as Mary Todd Lincoln in Spielberg’s Oscar winner still lingers these years later. So why does her virtuosic work in Hello, My Name Is Doris feel like such a resounding comeback? I suppose it’s because, like Lily Tomlin in the similarly gracious dramedy Grandma, meaty roles for women of a certain age remain endangered properties on … [Read more...]
Composer celebrates Miami for Cleveland Orchestra’s 10th local anniversary
Avner Dorman. Take a break from your alfresco waterfront nosh someday, walk out to the shore and take a close look at the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. You’ll see that the small waves are, except for their size, exactly like the big ones, but all of them join together to make an unstoppable force. So says Avner Dorman, whose sonic realization of that fact —and its metaphor … [Read more...]
Varied modernist program engages at Seraphic Fire
By Robert Croan A Single Rose: Modernism in the Americas was the arbitrary title of Serapic Fire’s March concerts, offered in several South Florida venues March 9-16 (seen in Fort Lauderdale’s All Saints Episcopal Church, March 12), but neither roses nor musical modernism were at the core of the program. The rose metaphor comes from a poem by Prague-born Rainer Maria Rilke … [Read more...]
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Ballet Palm Beach creates dance take on ‘Great Gatsby’
Just before Nick Carraway meets Jay Gatsby in his big mansion on West Egg, the party his neighbor is throwing for a large number of people is in full Roaring Twenties swing. And inevitably, that means dancing, from “old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles” to “a great number of single girls dancing individualistically,” all of it part of the … [Read more...]
Boca Ballet Theatre to mark 25th with stars they fostered
By Dale King Boca Ballet’s executive director, Dan Guin, feverishly pulled together copies of Dance Magazine covers from the past several years that were strewn across his desk. “He performed here,” he said, poking his finger at the photo of a familiar dance artist. “She did, too,” he said, pointing at another. Guin repeated this action again and again until he singled 27 … [Read more...]
Lalami at Boca fest: History, as seen through the eyes of the Other
By Myles Ludwig The cultural construct of the Other is a convenient paradox. On the one hand, the Other allows us to individuate ourselves and stake a personal claim on our own identity. One the other hand, in the best Talmudic tradition, it’s a pretty handy hat rack for our top-of-the-mind hates, prejudices, laments of every kind and description based on race, class, hair … [Read more...]
Documentary chronicles history, impact of Zionism
A group of Jewish immigrants enters the port of Haifa, in a photo seen in Colliding Dreams. In late January, documentarian Oren Rudavsky brought his controversial new film, Colliding Dreams, to the area to screen it for attendees of the 26th annual Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival. He met with Hap Erstein to talk about the film — an exploration of Zionism, the promotion of … [Read more...]