My Nutcracker pick of the holiday season: City Ballet of Los Angeles’s multiracial Nutcracker set to Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington. [...]
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2 November 2011 
A portrait of an artist: choreographer Nacho Duato at work at his new gig in Russia. [...] 5 September 2011 
Chico Marx famously queried: “Why a duck?” We rather wonder, “Why a swan?” [...] 9 March 2011 Like many composers, Tchaikovsky recycled his own music, and the music in the opera duet from “Undina” is startlingly close to Swan Lake’s Act II pas de deux. Interestingly, both stories are about ethereal creatures who end up under water. It just shows how the two mediums of opera and ballet can cross over intriguingly. [...] 23 August 2010 
We enjoyed the American Cinematheque’s Ken Russell homage at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Both the feisty British director, now in his 80s, and the star of the film, Richard Chamberlain participated in a q&a. [...] |
       gered mankowitz, photog, 1967      “the red danube” (1949)   |
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