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Choreographic Lab Distills Inventiveness and Energy

Choreographic Lab Distills Inventiveness and Energy

Review: Charlotte Ballet’s Choreographic Lab By Perry Tannenbaum May 13, 2022, Charlotte, NC – We’ve been seeing plenty from Charlotte Ballet in the past month. Ending April and plunging into May, the company unveiled the world premiere of Sleeping Beauty: A Fairy Tailored Classic, with choreography by Matthew Hart – a ballet about a sleeping princess that had slumbered for two years prior to…

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Heretical Fairy-Tailored Format Is a Winner at the Knight

Heretical Fairy-Tailored Format Is a Winner at the Knight

Review: Charlotte Ballet Premieres Sleeping Beauty: A Fairy Tailored Classic By Perry Tannenbaum   Whether paired with Vampire Lesbians of Sodom onstage, orchestrated by Tchaikovsky for ballet, or adapted by talents as diverse as Walt Disney and Matthew Bourne, Sleeping Beauty isn’t a title that sleeps for long. Between here and Greensboro, the title appeared more than a dozen times on our…

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Charlotte Ballet Takes Us Back to the Future in Rousing and Meaningful Innovative 1970

Charlotte Ballet Takes Us Back to the Future in Rousing and Meaningful Innovative 1970

Review: Innovative 1970 at Center for Dance By Perry Tannenbaum February 4, 2022, Charlotte, NC – Distorted by delay, the title of Charlotte Ballet’s latest program sounds more like an oxymoron than ever. Innovative 1970 was originally designed to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary, but COVID intervened in all our lives so that the official celebration couldn’t be staged until October…

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King of Pop Invades Popo in Leonce and Lena

King of Pop Invades Popo in Leonce and Lena

Review: US premiere of Christian Spuck’s Leonce and Lena in Charlotte By Perry Tannenbaum

As the action in the US premiere of Christian Spuck’s Leonce and Lenareached its climax, King Peter of Popo stepped forward on the Knight Theater stage to make an important announcement – to the audience, presumably, for the rest of the Charlotte Ballet cast stood respectfully and expectantly behind him.…

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