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Match Pointe.(Jardin aux Lilas)(Brief article)
Byline: GIA KOURLAS editor: Valerie Steiker
The captivating Jardin aux Lilas takes ballet to new heights--and daring depths.
As Roman Zhurbin, a 24-year-old Russian member of American Ballet Theatre, puts it, "Not everything is Giselle and Albrecht--there's a different side of ballet, too."
That understated side will be on display this month at New York's City Center when ABT honors Antony Tudor, an English choreographer whose specialty was the psychological ballet. In the 1936 Jardin aux Lilas, a delicately perfumed tragedy of manners, the luminous Julie Kent, a company veteran, reprises the role of Caroline, who must bid farewell to her lover on the eve of her wedding. But it's complicated; the Man She Must Marry, played by Zhurbin, a former folk dancer, must end a relationship, too.
Ballet master Kirk Peterson recalls that Tudor would explain to dancers that they were stepping off a ...
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...which included Pillar of Fire and a well-groomed Jardin aux Lilas, didn't allow for an intermission. The sold-out audience...production--an updated batch of costumes wouldn't hurt--but Julie Kent and Gomes expertly negotiated the ballet's deceivingly difficult...
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...manners to both dancers and audiences. Tudor's 1936 "Jardin aux Lilas" provided the program's passion. Set to Chausson's...David Kim as the fine solo violinist last night, "Jardin aux Lilas" offers not only the essence of a story, but character...
