RSS FeedD.C. DanceWatcher, Lisa Traiger: Midnight Dreams
From Balanchine to Macmillan, Lubovitch to Limon, Shakespeare’s plays, the tragedies and comedies, have been translated into grand full-evening ballets and sharply focused choreographic gems. Lar Lubovitch’s evening-length “Othello” holds out its best hope when its principals are ballet dramatists, who can inject the story of love, infidelity, mistrust and revenge with meaningful body language and facial expression. And Jose Limon’s classic “The Moor’s Pavanne,” using a Henry Purcell score , distills the same Shakespearean tale into a little roundelay about a handkerchief that carries the weight and significance even in its compact structure. Then there’s Balanchine’s gorgeous “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which uses Felix Mendelsohn’s lilting score to telescope the mismatched couples under spell of the forest creatures and their ultimate – fateful -- reconciliation. Ashton’s “The Dream,” a one act reverie with a sweetly characteristic Ashton pas de deux, brings to light the charm and winsome qualities of its dancers. Synetic Theater, the astonishingly talented Arlington troupe of actors who have inculcated dance and its value as an expressive form into its work, has crafted its own finely rendered version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” This is its fourth go at a Shakespearean play in what has become a franchise of sorts producing wordless Shakespeare. After debuting with “Hamlet … the rest is silence,” which won the then-fledgling troupe accolades and notoriety, the company tackled two more tragedies -- “King Lear” and “Macbeth” – with unequaled abandon. Founders Paata Tsikurishvili, an actor, director, filmmaker and now script writer, and his choreographer/dancer wife, Irina, have brought their Russian-style training from Tbilisi, Georgia, to American audiences who have responded enthusiastically to their daring theatrical adaptations of classic plays and contemporary novels. The work draws extensively on old-fashioned...
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