Ballet isn’t known for its social conscience, given its aristocratic beginnings and traditional spine. Yet that is what drove “Dance Innovations” Wednesday night at the Amphitheater and maybe why Chautauqua’s resident ballet company is called North Carolina Dance “Theatre.”
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In Strohl, ‘Bilateral Trace’ is a modest showing of crosscultural engagement
August 3, 2011
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A trace: The poetics of a line which leads toward discovery, a mark of meaning.
In this case, in the Strohl Art Center, the trace engages two parties along a line of aesthetic discovery growing between Iran and the United States.
Read more NCDT’s pieces create individual sparkle in night of dance bravado
July 29, 2011
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An evening of pas de deux can signal a gala event, a chance for company dancers to present their unique and often tasty gifts in quick succession. On the other hand, such an evening can turn into an extended yawn, given the repetitive and possibly confining nature of two per dance.
Read more Sensational, terribly moving music making
July 25, 2011
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After electrical power was restored to a darkened Chautauqua Institution, conductor Doreen Rao restored a different sort of power — the power of an idea — to the Amphitheater stage with a program that may have been the most demanding of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra season. Ranging from the high Baroque of Bach’s 18th Century “Magnificat” to Leonard Bernstein’s 1971 “Mass,” an omnium gatherum of styles, Saturday’s program covered wide historical and stylistic ground.
Read more No power? No problem.
July 22, 2011
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Weird night last night.
I should have known that something was amiss at Chautauqua when I found a parking space at the bottom of the lot close to the exit. Paradoxically, the failure of a transformer earlier in the day and the resultant loss of electrical power increased the noise level on the grounds as gasoline-powered generators chugged away.
Read more New Strohl exhibit gives viewers ‘blue heavenly time’
July 21, 2011
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Blue: Wavelength 440-490 nm; frequency 680-610 THz; ranging from navy blue to cyan as one of the primary colors. And there are other truths, other ways of seeing and being blue.
Read more Harth-Bedoya, Gerhardt combine for a crowd-pleasing evening
July 15, 2011
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The buzz around the young conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya is that he’s in the running to succeed the departed Stefan Sanderling as the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s music director.
Read more Despite genuine insights, CTC’s ‘Three Sisters’ mostly overdone
July 14, 2011
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The good news is that Chautauqua Theater Company is staging Anton Chekhov’s 1901 “Three Sisters,” one of the greatest plays ever written, through July 17. Further, good reports can be made of the chosen translation: by the late Slavic academic-turned-actor Paul Schmidt, it renders Chekhov’s then-contemporary idiom (the play is set in a stultifying provincial city in 1900) into plausible, listenable and unstilted American English, with only a few questionable decisions.
Read more ‘July’s Delight’ indeed as NCDT, CSO collaborate elegantly
July 13, 2011
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It’s always a welcome event to have the North Carolina Dance Theatre and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra collaborate, but the first such program of the season appeared to have a third party involved — the audience.
Read more In CTC’s ‘Three Sisters,’ experimentation leads to sparks of brilliance
July 12, 2011
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Those who love Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” understand that as time passes, the world we know fades into the past. In time, we ourselves will be gone, and no one will remember our faces or even our voices. The good news is that through the indelible impact we have on others, eventually, our lives will take on meaning, and the world will be a better place.
At least, that is the famous prophecy made by Ólga, the oldest of the three sisters, in the final moments of Chekhov’s play.
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