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4/30/24 O&A NYC DANCE REVIEW: The Martha Graham Dance Company

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By Walter Rutledge

The Martha Graham Dance Company presented their 98th season April 17 thru 20th at New York City Center. The season offered only four performances featuring works by Agnes DeMille, Martha Graham, Jamar Roberts and Hofesh Shechter. The Thursday night program featured two Graham masterworks Rite of Spring (1984) and her icon Appalachian Spring (1944) and We The People, a new work by Roberts. The audience was treated to a season of live music (a former dance staple now a luxury) by the Mannes Orchestra and the Gabe Witcher Sextet. Continue reading

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1/23/19 O&A NYC DANCE/THEATRE REVIEW: 5 Plus Ensemble Debut Performance

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By Walter Rutledge

5 Plus Ensemble presented their premiere salon performance on Friday, December 14th, 2018 at Dance Theatre of Harlem’s studio 2. With a stellar core group consisting of Hope Clark, Carmen de Lavallade, Shelia Rohan, Darryl Reuben Hall and Michael Leon Thomas; this performing arts collective offered five works encompassing pure dance, theatre/musical theatre and prose. The well attended debut reinforced the notion that somethings do get better with time. Continue reading

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3/11/17 O&A NYC ITS SATURDAY- ANYTHING GOES: Gay Parisian Gaîté Parisienne Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (1941) Featuring Leonide Massine And Frederick Franklin

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Gaîté Parisienne (literally, “Parisian Gaiety”) choreographed by Léonide Massine  music by Jacques Offenbach and featuring Leonide Massine, Frederick Franklin, Nathalie Krassovska, Milada Mladova, Andre Eglevsky, Igor Youskevitch, Lubov Roudenko, Casimir Kokitch, and James Starbuck was film in 1941.  Continue reading

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6/11/16 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Red Shoes (1948)- Ballet Sequence

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The Red Shoes, a 1948 British film based on the fairy tale The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen, stars Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring and features renowned dancers Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine and Ludmilla Tcherina.  Continue reading