DANCESCAPE.* Photographer Nancy Ellison was inspired by Kenneth MacMillan's ballet when she conceived her new book, Romeo & Juliet: The Love Story in Dance (Universe). For her "personal visual interpretation" of the tragedy, Verona provided the settings and Shakespeare the captions. The fair city seems rather underpopulated in these pages, but American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. stars Angel Corella Ángel Corella (born 1975) is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Raised in Madrid, Spain, he trained with Karemia Moreno and Víctor Ullate and began winning dance awards at a young age, including the First Prize in the National Ballet Competition of Spain and three and Paloma Herrera Paloma Herrera (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 21, 1975), is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri. look great as star-crossed teens. The Balcony Scene, shown above, is seemingly drenched in light from the inconstant moon. Actually, Ellison shot it with the cinematic technique called "day for night," which gives a scene filmed during the day a nocturnal look. Harris Green * Michael Fagans combines his two main interests, dance and photography, in this buoyant study of Troy Riddle, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. Riddle is striking a pose choreographed by Fagans, who danced at the College of Wooster (Ohio) while earning a B.A. Since 1996, Fagans has been majoring in photo journalism at RIT RIT, n See therapy, regenerative injection. while serving as photo editor of the student magazine, The Reporter. He graduated this year. Bart Roth * Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, established in 1805, incorporated in 1806. It is supported by private endowment. The academy grew out of a proposal by Charles Willson Peale for an art institution; this led to the founding of the Columbianum, is giving painter Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) his first retrospective with an exhibition conceived by chief curator Sylvia Yount. Featured are some 170 paintings, drawings, and photographs from the 70-year career of an artist from the golden age of illustration who was noted for his dreamy blend of the erotic and the fairy-tale. The oil triptych of Old King Cole Old King Cole merry old soul. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 134] See : Joviality and his dancing fiddlers three shows Parrish in a fey vein. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., is devoting one of its posh tomes to Parrish. After closing September 25, the exhibition tours to Manchester, N.H.; Rochester, N.Y.; and Brooklyn. H.G Duke Ellington's 100th birthday is triggering celebrations from coast to coast. In New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , for instance, City Ballet commissioned three ballets set to his scores [see page 75] and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra scheduled a series of all-Ellington concerts. On August 7 Los Angeles-based JazzAntiqua will perform at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre as part of a program, "To Duke, With Love." Photographer Paul Antico has caught some of the festive spirit in this shot of JazzAntiqua dancer Charles Zacharie in a pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or with a double bass. B.R. * Julie Taymor's 25-year career as a designer and director, which cuminated in her Tony Award--winning director of Broadway's The Lion King, is being saluted with an exhibition by Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. in Columbus. Starting September 18 and running through January 2, 2000, Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire will highlight her designs for puppets, masks, and costumes and her work in theater, film, and television. (Shown her is a costume for Fool's Fire, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe for PBS's American Playhouse.) The exhibition's 240-page catalogue will be copublished, in hard and soft cover, by the Wexner Center and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., this fall. Cocurators Sherri Geldin and Charles Helm have contributed a foreword. B.R. |
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