Rogue's gallery.Caption: TOP ROW Under their spell: Frederick Ashton bares his claws as the enchanter Kostchei in The Firebird; Wendy Whelan prepares to destroy her hapless prey as the novice in the NYCB NYCB New York City Ballet NYCB New York Community Bank production of Jerome Robbins' The Cage; Dracula, as conceived by Colorado Ballet, has emerged a newly popular villain. MIDDLE ROW Nasty, nasty: Roland Petit portrays mad-scientist-turned-baddie Dr. Coppelius in his own staging of Coppelia; members of Dairakudakan performing in Ryuba; a poisonous Lucas Hoving as lago (with his hands on the shoulders of Jose Limon's Othello) in the Liman classic The Moor's Pavane pavane Stately court dance introduced from southern Europe into England in the 16th century. The dance, consisting of forward and backward steps to music in duple time, was originally used to open ceremonial balls; later its steps became livelier and it came to be paired . BOTTOM ROW Evil as metaphor: Maria Calegari enthroned Enthroned was formed in Charleroi in 1993 by Cernunnos. He soon recruited guitarist Tsebaoth and a vocalist from a local Grind/Black band Hecate who stayed until the end of december 1993. Then bassist/vocalist Sabathan joined. in triumph as the seductive siren in the NYCB production of George Balanchine's Prodigal Son. The evil of economics: The war profiteers planning death and destruction in Kurt Jooss' 1932 The Green Table, here in the original production by Ballets Jooss. TOP ROW Hell hath no fury: Zenaida Yanowsky as Carabosse in The Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty; Nils Bjorn Larsen as Madge and Felipe Diaz as James in the San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet, or SFB, is a San Francisco, USA based ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, where it is directed by Helgi Tomasson. staging of La Sylphide; MarieClaude Pietragalla as the Accused in the Paris Opera Ballet The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra national de Paris, otherwise known as the Palais Garnier, though known more popularly simply as the Paris Opéra. staging of Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend Fall River Legend is a ballet based on the life of Lizzie Borden. One of choreographer Agnes de Mille's best-known works, it featured an original score by Morton Gould and scenic design by Oliver Smith. . MIDDLE ROW Bad as they wanna be: Alexei Charov portrays von Rothbart and Riolama Lorenzo is his Degas-inspired Odette in Christopher Wheeldon's new Swan Lake for Pennsylvania Ballet; Mark Fucik, Renee Jaworski, and Jennifer Macavinta in Alison Chase's Night of the Dark Moon for Pilobolus Dance Theatre. BOTTOM ROW Just don't try pushing them around: The sultan in the Milwaukee Ballet staging of Scheherazade; Anita Paciotti and Yuri Possokhov in the SFB staging of Flemming Flindt's The Lesson; MariaClaude Pietragalla as Death in the POB staging of Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et La Mort. |
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