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Brilliant Steps
Monday, May 31, 2010 4:55PM / / Members only
It has been a busy weekend of dance! As part of Le French May, we attended the Hong Kong Ballet's "Brilliant Steps" posted here last week…and what brilliant steps they were. Standout performances:
The HK Ballet’s Jin Yao was amazing in Forsythe’s 1985 Steptext, a work re-examining the role of the ballerina and the tradition of the pas de deux. The piece breaks down the concept of the traditional ballet: Bach’s music was started and stopped abruptly throughout, hand gestures acted as a language between dancers, lights would go out on one dancer and come back up on another leaving the viewer wondering what took place. Jin Yao adapted to the rather unconventional ballet with perfection dancing with 3 male dancers including an especially engaging solo with the Ukraine’s Kostyantyn Keshyshev. My husband didn't fall asleep during this one. That's a great review right there!
Created for the San Francisco Ballet, the pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s Ghost was exquisite. Depicting the dancers as spirits, Yuan Yuan Tan put the “brilliant” in Brilliant Steps. After watching other ballerinas onstage, she danced with such fluidity that you almost wonder how the human body can be trained to move like that. An HK Ballet guest principal dancer (she belongs to the San Francisco Ballet right now), she is the only principal dancer from China in the world. Wonderfully chatty after a sweaty rehearsal, I sat down with her and her dance partner, San Francisco’s Damian Smith, prior to their HK performances. These two went from appearing superhuman on stage to just being regular folk! I wanted to know so badly what type of dance these beautiful ballet dancers would like to try other than ballet. For Damian, being an Aussie, he mentioned a tribal dance company Bengara he had seen in Australia, and Yuan Yuan Tan said tango. For now, they are living their dreams with upcoming plans to keep touring and enjoying every moment dance and performing gives them. Because they know it won’t last forever. Brilliant.
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