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Sunday, March 3, 2019

Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by The Washington Ballet at The Kennedy Center by Mary Scott Manning

The original St. Petersburg production of Marius Petipa’s “The Sleeping Beauty” was the Disney show of its time, complete with moving set pieces, gloriously painted backdrops, half a t…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:17PM

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Dance Review: ‘TWB Welcomes’ by The Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater by Mary Scott Manning

The Washington Ballet opened the 2018-2019 season with “TWB Welcomes,” a welcome both to the company’s audience and to the four guest dancers from the American Ballet Theat…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PM

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Dance News: ‘Dancing on Water: Ballet Conservatoire XIV’ After the Elliott City Flood by Mary Scott Manning

I could have missed the pain, but I’d have had to miss the dance. — Garth Brooks, “The Dance” Main Street of historic Ellicott City rests uneasily on a slope. Near the top, in relati…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:08PM

Monday, June 11, 2018

Theatre Review: ‘Life or Theatre?’ at Annex Theater by Mary Scott Manning

Charlotte Salomon (Caroline Preziosi) was an artist from a well-off family living in Berlin through the rise of the Third Reich. Her family was Jewish. Less than a year before being captured…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:12PM

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Theatre Review: ‘Charlotte’s Web’ at Creative Cauldron by Mary Scott Manning

Entering the theater for Creative Cauldron’s “Charlotte’s Web” musical felt like stepping onto the Zuckerman family farm, the setting of E.B. White’s classic children’s s…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:46PM

Monday, May 7, 2018

Dance Review: ‘May Revels’ at Washington National Cathedral by Mary Scott Manning

In the Middle Ages, the English people would venture out into the woods and fields on the eve of May 1st to “bring in the May.” They would gather flowers and greenery, bringing them back…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:57PM

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Dance Review: ‘Andersson Dance and Scottish Ensemble: Goldberg Variations–ternary patterns for insomnia at The Kennedy Center by Mary Scott Manning

According to legend, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote “Aria with diverse variations for a harpsichord with two manuals” around 1741 to comfort a Russian ambassador suffering from inso…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:33PM

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Dance Review: ‘Works by Balanchine, Martins & Peck’ at the Kennedy Center by Mary Scott Manning

Before seeing “Works by Balanchine, Martins & Peck” this week at the Kennedy Center, I had only known the New York City Ballet (NYC Ballet) as a researcher: through old films…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AM

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Dance Review: ‘Dearest Home’ at Kogod Theatre in Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Mary Scott Manning

In the program notes, choreographer Kyle Abraham revealed the driving force of “Dearest Home.” In the year leading up to the premiere, his mother died and he ended a relationship with th…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:24PM

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Dance Review: ‘Whipped Cream’ at The Kennedy Center Opera House by Mary Scott Manning

Classical story ballets tend to be about sinister things. A cursed spindle (“The Sleeping Beauty”), a spellbound swan (“Swan Lake”), a haunted prince (“Giselle”). Even “The Nut…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:16PM

Friday, February 2, 2018

Dance Review: ‘Stepping Out’ at George Mason University Center for the Arts by Mary Scott Manning

Most striking about Irish dance is the near total absence of port de bras—the movement of arms. The torso remains rigid, with the arms stick straight at the sides or at right angles agains…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:30AM

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Interview: Maggie Kudirka on Dancing Through Cancer and Her Upcoming Benefit Concert by Mary Scott Manning

After graduating from Towson University in 2014, aspiring professional ballerina Margaret “Maggie” Kudirka earned a spot in the Joffrey Ballet Concert Group (JCG), a touring company of …

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PM

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