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| Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music: Haffner Symphony Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson Staged by: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Thomas R. Skelton Number of Dancers: Time: |
| The program opened with ``Haffner Symphony,'' a slight, too long but attractive piece. Kristin Long and Parrish Maynard were very correct in the leading roles, but it was some of the dancers in the back row who often stood out./ Review The steps of ballet's academic idiom are of concern to Mr. Tomasson, but how these steps are linked together and performed are even more so. A codified 400-year-old movement vocabulary is anything but a dead language if it comes alive in nuances of phrasing and execution. No company in America now has toe work so wonderfully... Mr. Tomasson has choreographed the program's opening ballet, " 'Haffner Symphony." Only Balanchine, in his "Divertimento No. 15," had previously been able to translate Mozart's elegance and warmth into visible patterns, and Mr. Tomasson is working here on a comparable level. Mozart wrote his 35th symphony, in D (K. 385), as an occasional piece when Sigmund Haffner, the Mayor of Salzburg, was elevated to the nobility. Mr. Tomasson's ballet is as festive as it is an embodiment of beauty. The aristocratic and hierarchical tone is set by Santo Loquasto's attractive backdrop with an alley of green hedges. This formal garden, framed by green drapes under Thomas R. Skelton's fine lighting, is echoed in the formality of the patterns. Miss Loscavio, in a richly ornamented tutu and crown, stands with Antonio Cas tilla, who reveals himself as an impressive classical dancer with special verve. A six-member female ensemble and three couples curved behind the principals float into a cluster of floral designs, as reminiscent of Petipa as of Balanchine's own homage to the 19th-century choreographer./ Review |
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