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Icons, idols, & legends: an idol may not be the greatest dancer on earth, but something in him appeals to something in you
According to the 1966 Random House Dictionary of the English Language, an icon is "a picture, image or other representation." It adds that in the...
Dance Magazine, 01/01/09 by Clive Barnes · More from publication -
Second thoughts, and perhaps third: we are too ready to place laurel wreathes around heroes; we value success and worship fashion
I don't know how impressed the czar would have been with William Forsythe's full-evening ballet Impressing the Czar, or even whether his aunt,...
Dance Magazine, 11/01/08 by Clive Barnes · More from publication -
Irina Baronova
The year was 1932, and the Russian-born Colonel W. de Basil and Rene Blum, with others including Balanchine and Massine, were trying to put...
Dance Magazine, 10/01/08 by Clive Barnes · More from publication -
A word or two for design
A few months ago, I was sitting in my usual seat at the New York State Theater, focused on and enjoying New York City Ballet's offering of an...
Dance Magazine, 10/01/08 by Clive Barnes · More from publication -
Four cheers for Robbins: Robbins was a choreographic genius rarely matched in the entire 20th century
It was a risky business for New York City Ballet to give over its spring season to a Jerome Robbins celebration, marking the 10th anniversary of...
Dance Magazine, 09/01/08 by Clive Barnes · More from publication -
Il Matrimonio Segreto at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater
Clive Barnes reviews the current season There is usually a reason for neglected masterpieces being neglected. That neglect is won the hard way....
Musical Opinion, 09/01/08 by Barnes, Clive · More from publication -
Lincoln Center Festival's Die Soldaten
Without doubt I had not been so moved - literally moved - as an audience since Trevor Nunn's first London production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber...
Musical Opinion, 09/01/08 by Barnes, Clive · More from publication -
New York City Opera - Second part of season 2007/08
It's a curious time for New York City Opera. The season after next Gerard Mortier leaves the Paris Opera to become General Director of New York...
Musical Opinion, 09/01/08 by Barnes, Clive · More from publication -
King Arthur
Ol' King Arthur was a merry l' som; a merry ol' soul was he. Oops! That was ?G King Cole. ?G King Arthur was the Camelot one who sang / Wonder What...
Musical Opinion, 09/01/08 by Barnes, Clive · More from publication -
Madama Butterfly
Mark Lamos' pervasively intelligent and persuasively atmospheric staging of Puccini's Madama Butterfly now almost a venerable 10-year-old, returned...
Musical Opinion, 09/01/08 by Barnes, Clive · More from publication
