Festival
Ballet's Carmen
RI
Dance Review
October 2003
Well, Carmen was another Festival Ballet slam-dunk. Outstanding modern
choreography, strong dancing and powerful acting combined to make a terrific
performance. Director Misha Djuric has demonstrated a true generosity of spirit
to bring in Viktor Plotnikov as choreographer. Misha's a tremendous choreographer,
himself, bubbling over with ideas and full of delightfully curvy surprises,
but he's never been given his head to do a full-length modern piece at FB.
He probably felt his contemporary style wouldn't wash with the old time ballet
folk and he was probably right, but both performances I attended, resulted
in standing ovations with 'Bravos' for the choreographer. What might have
looked too pushy for Misha to do was greeted with cheers for an out of town
choreographer.
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Festival's
Carmen an Engaging Beauty
Providence Journal issue on October
4, 2003
by Bryan Rourke, Journal Staff Writer
Carmen counters convention. You expect to see a story about seduction,
jealousy and rage, which Festival Ballet Providence provides in its current
production, which opened last night at the VMA Arts & Cultural Center
and continues tonight and tomorrow. But if you're expecting classical ballet,
brace yourself -- for something refreshingly different.
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Lust
for Life; Festiva Ballet’s Fiery
Carmen
by Johnette Rodriguez, from the Providence
Phoenix
Issue Date: October 3 - 9, 2003
Though most of us are familiar with the story of the sultry gypsy girl
Carmen from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera of the same name, Bizet himself
picked it up from the French writer Prosper Mérimée, who had
heard it from a Spanish countess.
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