A heartfelt tribute to Marvin Hamlisch included a passionate, insightful rendition of "At the Ballet" (from "A Chorus Line"), which she said was his personal favorite among his compositions.
The version of womanhood in "Nightspot" is a watered-down pop rendition of those dated reductive ballet versions of "Carmen," choreographed for divas like Zizi Jeanmaire (by Roland Petit), Maya Plisetskaya (by Alberto Alonso and Marcia Haydeee (by John Cranko).
In "Nut/Cracked," David Parker's bare-bones rendition of the perennial holiday ballet, you'll see a Santa with a shaving-cream beard, a Sugar Plum solo performed in the dark by a man armed with a flashlight, and a Chinese variation in which another male dancer gulps a single noodle from a takeout carton.
For the second time in four seasons, the hometown company with a shoestring budget will present its rendition of the full-length ballet — which the Frenchman Marius Petipa first choreographed in St .Petersburg, Russia, in 1877 — and usually is performed by the world's most prestigious ballet houses.
Martin West conducted the superb San Francisco Ballet orchestra for both casts and delivered the finest rendition of Adam's score that Ballet to the People has ever heard: crisp, poignant, and blessedly free from the cheesy, circusy flourishes that afflict other arrangements.
(Previous excursions in this vein have included a staged reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," a 3-hour opera about a depressed fisherman, and an all-ballet rendition of The Great Gatsby. I am the envy of none of my straight male friends).
And screening nationwide on 19 Dec ,live from Moscow, is the Bolshoi Ballet's rendition of The Nutcracker.
Mr. Robertson sashayed on the podium during a vivacious rendition of Ginastera's Dances from the Ballet "Estancia," a lively conclusion to the evening.
For folks looking for a Nutcracker experience that is a bit different than just the routine performance storyline, the Kansas City Ballet opened its rendition of "The Nutcracker" to a full house at the stunning Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts last week.
I knew it was love forever when five of our closest friends sat on the couch while we debuted our ballet rendition of Donna Lewis' "I Love You Always Forever". Neither of us had a background in dance, let alone any foundational knowledge of ballet.
Ballet dancers are very harsh critics of ballet dancers.
