And the Boston Ballet season is also starting tomorrow, with a one-night fund raising gala of shorter star pieces, along with previews of their season, including La Bayadere which will be a premiere for Boston. Our ballet has gotten really good over the last ten years.
Enjoy Swan Lake, Chrissi, it is musically and choreographically one of the great classics, a high point in the tradition of impossible doomed love. Tchaikovsky had a genius for musical storytelling, atmosphere, pacing, transitions and endless novelty which I don't think has ever been equaled in music written for the dance. There is no reason you can't love the original version and Bourne's too, should you ever get an opportunity to see that.
If it gets you interested in dance - I hope you take the locals seriously too. Stuttgart and Hamburg have really great companies. Stuttgart is doing some good things as part of their 50th celebration this year, like the John Cranko versions of Romeo and Juliet and Taming of the Shrew. And Hamburg is doing
the wonderful non-storied Jerome Robbins 'Dances at a Gathering' set to Chopin among many others.
