By François Fargue John Cranko’s 1967 Onegin, presented by Paris Opera Ballet at the Garnier in March, is one of the most romantic yet intriguing ballets. Based on the eponymous verse novel by Russian writer Pushkin, the story goes that the young yet world-weary and cynical rich Onegin rejects the love of naïve Tatiana, whom
by Allan Ulrich With the Berkeley debut of New York-based Reggie Wilson / Fist and Heel Performance Group on September 23 at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances at the University of California launched Joining Generations, an ambitious, four-part survey of African American choreography. The California premiere of Wilson’s 2013 Moses(es) inaugurated the project in arresting, if
For its fall production, Boston Ballet presented a double bill at the Boston Opera House featuring Wayne McGregor’s Obsidian Tear and the premiere of Jorma Elo’s Fifth Symphony of Jean Sibelius. Both works were accompanied live by the Boston Ballet Orchestra, which began the evening by playing Sibelius’ Finlandia, a “symphonic poem” that is at