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Maria / A Time to Dance
Ballet Hispanico
Palladium Nights and Repertory
Joyce Theater
November 27 - December 9, 2007
PLEASE NOTE:: This review is of Ballet Hispanico performing at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on November 5, 2007.
"Palladium Nights: Ballet Hispanico and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill at the Kennedy Center"
"Palladium Nights is what I would describe as a full-length salsa ballet. The stage was set up like an old-time nightclub...where the 10 clubgoers danced out the little dramas that occur in the course of a night out in the club....While Palladium Nights was not earth shattering for me in every way, it brought me a long way in rethinking new modes of salsa performance. Choreographer Willie Rosario did a nice job at times of incorporating the beauty, grace, and technique of contemporary ballet and modern dance in a harmonious and cohesive way. And there was also some pretty great dancing, choreography, and live music thrown in to boot." Read review...
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Alastair Macaulay / New York Times
Ballet Hispanico
Palladium Nights and Repertory
Joyce Theater
November 27 - December 9, 2007
"Looking Back on a Ballroom's Past, With Kicks and Lifts and Leaps"
"[Choreographer Tina Ramirez] has conceived "Palladium Nights" as a semi-narrative about cartoonlike characters who might just have turned up at the Palladium on the same night: the vamp, the sailor, the glamorous lonely-heart, the overexcited male oddball, the Casanova, the eager schoolgirl, the bespectacled prude, the professional ballroom duo.... Not to mention the flirtations that arise." Read review...
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