'Carmen' ; When the Story's This Hot, the Length Doesn't Matter
Dayton Daily News › March 22, 2006
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You can look. She dares you not to. You can touch. Maybe. Don't try to hold her. Carmen belongs to no one. The woman immortalized by Bizet's opera leaps into motion tonight when the Dayton Ballet presents the local premiere of Washington Ballet director Septime Webre's pulsating one-act Carmen on a program that also includes a revival of company artistic associate Gregory Robinson's Carmina Burana. Taking his cue from Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin's Carmen Suite, a selective re-scoring of Bizet's music, Webre set out to "distill the story to its essentials. It's only one act, but less can be more."
His Carmen is packed with movement, which will surprise no one who has seen the Dayton Ballet in several other works by him: Upper & Outest, DConstruction, And So It Goes, Fluctuating Hemlines, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet and Peter Pan.See the full content of this document
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'Carmen' ; When the Story's This Hot, the Length Doesn't Matter
He has a lot to say about Carmen in not much space.
"She has traditio...See the full content of this document
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