In a way this 39-minute, black-and-white movie is a draft of "The Red Balloon": the unrulier, more disturbing story of which the later film is a charming, whimsical variation "White Mane" is no less carefully composed than its better-known successor: both pictures have the economy, the clarity of purpose and the pleasing symmetry of a sonnet.
Nina Ananiashvili's State Ballet of Georgia opens the festival (June 23-27), with a program that includes Alexei Ratmansky's charming "Bizet Variations".
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The concertmaster, Krista Bennion Feeney, offered a graceful solo contribution to the charming second movement variations.
For his swan song, the versatile Wheeldon has created a quartet for four of the company's younger dancers (including the eloquent Sara Mearns), set to Tchaikovsky's charming suite of variations for cello and orchestra.
Four-hand works, like the charming Andante and Five Variations in G by Mozart, which the fine pianists Gilles Vonsattel and André-Michel André-Michel Schubsitely to oplayedexquisitelywere conceived as pieces for toe hopen primarily for the enjoyment of the program.
Personal and charming, the Rococo bouquet and its variations remained popular into the 20th century.
This led to similarly offbeat performances, many of them variations on the smiling, charming, cold-blooded killer with a screw loose.
In "Quintett," on the other hand, Mr. Hauer seemed content to press a simple melodic pattern through a series of rhythmic variations; what resulted was charming, harmonically piquant process music for a late-19th-century salon.
The opening story, "Checkers and Donna," is a charming come-on, a snappy, off-kilter variation on the shopworn theme of hipsters meeting cute as clever banter flies and witty thought balloons form over their heads.
