Not that the artistic director loves Shakespeare less.
The director loves it, he says, because it is about Jesus the man as opposed to Jesus the god.
Anyone who has seen Mr. Elliott's productions of the plays of Mike Leigh (or of "Aunt Dan and Lemon") knows that this director loves a party, especially as a setting for bad behavior.
On the one hand, it specialized in reviving excellent ballets from the early twentieth century — works by Frederick Ashton, Léonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Michel Fokine, to name a few — which Robert Joffrey, the company's director, loved, and reconstructed with tender care.
So, if actors are disposable, replaceable commodities, vain, silly and mean, why do we get the feeling this director loves them so?
Pamina and Tamino face each other and dissolve into colorless silhouettes, frozen against the black-and-white world this director loves so much.
The board and faculty of the NYU Child Study Center mourn the loss of Roma Koplewicz, devoted wife, partner and friend of Joseph Joe Koplewiczcz, beloved mother of our Edith, Linda and Harold S. Koplewicz, Director, loving grandmother to Joshua, Adam, Sam and Alex.
The board and faculty of the NYU Child Study Center mourn the loss of Roma Koplewicz, devoted wife, partner and friend of Joseph Joe Koplewiczcz, beloved mother of Edith, Linda and Harold S. Koplewicz, Director, loving grandmother to Joshua, Adam, Sam and Alex.
On the one hand, it specialized in reviving excellent ballets from the early twentieth century works by Frederick Ashton, Léonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Michel Fokine, to name a few which Robert Joffrey, the company's director, loved, and reconstructed with tender care.
Chuck Davis, the group's artistic director, loves to speechify, and during the nearly two-and-a-half hour program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday night — it was so long he had to cut the finale — there were two award presentations and a memorial service to honor those once connected to DanceAfrica.
