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Jennifer Dunning / New York Times
Ballet Hispanico
Palladium Nights and Repertory
Joyce Theater
November 27 - December 9, 2007
"Sleek Lines and Fat Cigars (if You Got 'Em)"
"Pedro Ruiz's "Club Havana" has become a signature work for Ballet Hispanico, and on Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater it was easy to see why. Hot and cool, the ballet takes Latin ballroom dances brought to the United States since the 1920s and artfully sews them together in choreography that could be performed only by classically trained dancers." Read review...
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Deborah Jowitt / The Village Voice
Ballet Hispanico
Palladium Nights and Repertory
Joyce Theater
November 27 - December 9, 2007
"The Latin '50s: Palladium Nights tries to resurrect an NYC club scene"
"In the 1950s, you could hang out on West 52nd Street and drop into one jazz club after another. The Palladium at Broadway and 53rd featured Latin bands headed by greats like Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, and Machito...Ballet Hispanico director Tina Ramirez seeks to recreate this atmosphere in Palladium Nights." Read review...
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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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