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Roland Petit

CARMEN.maquia (Ballet Hispánico)

June 1, 2025

The twisty, but clichéd, choreography was not without its clever and eye-catching moments, but try as he might Ramírez Sansano never fully defined the characters, hindered by the equally colorless setting and costumes.  The only variation on the relentless white of the ever-morphing pile of white bits and pieces that made up the set were several black-gray-white drops which divided the space and punctuated the action.  The painting had clear references to Picasso’s masterpiece, "Guérnica." [more]

The Pygmalion Effect

June 14, 2019

By placing his ballet in the realm of the high-strung ballroom world, Eifman supplied himself plenty of excuses to make dances that bounced about the stage to his score of a parade of waltzes, polkas, marches and bits and pieces of the output of some of the many “Waltz King” Strausses (Johann the Son, Josef and Eduard) with one interlude of Mozart tossed in at the end. [more]