by Kaija Pepper When the pas de deux are so sweet, the cast of characters so engaging and the design so fetching, there is every reason to welcome another Romeo and Juliet to ballet’s Shakespearean canon. Stanton Welch has given Houston Ballet a passion-filled, action-packed journey into doomed, young love. Welch, an Australian who has
by Gary Smith You might have been expecting a dumbed-down Sleeping Beauty. After all, Toronto’s Ballet Jörgen took this grand 19th-century work and reimagined it for a chamber touring company that travels mostly to smaller communities across Canada. Well, you’d be wrong. In spite of some dramatic excesses, this production, which had its October premiere
by Robin J. Miller What a difference a day makes. On the first night of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal’s two-night stop last February in Victoria, British Columbia, they performed the program as announced: Rodrigo Pederneiras’ Rouge, followed by Itzik Galili’s Mono Lisa and Andonis Foniadakis’ Kosmos. An injury that first night, however, meant the