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Cen que fas après lo balèti?

Lo Còr de la Plana, Somerville Theatre, October 3, 2008
“Bon soir!” someone from the audience shouted as the six members of Lo Còr de la Plana took the Somerville Theatre stage last Friday.  
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 14, 2008

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Men from Mars(eille)

Lo Còr de la Plana invade Boston
“Un jour ou l’autre, parlera l’Europe marseillais” — “Sooner or later, Europe will speak Marseille.”  
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 30, 2009

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The South shall rise . . .

France's Occitan New Wave
The singing groups of the South of France draw on everything from mediæval pilgrimage chants and troubadour poetry to contemporary rap and ragga.  
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 01, 2008

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The Duchess

A sea of vapidity
There’s nothing like a movie about 18th-century England to make 21st-century Americans feel all smug and morally superior.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  September 23, 2008

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Suburban Mozart that swings

Lexington Symphony at Cary Hall, Lexington, MA, September 13, 2008
It’s a tribute to the quality of Boston’s classical-music scene that a suburban orchestra like the Lexington Symphony is capable of a performance to attract the attention of those who live closer to Symphony Hall.  
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 09, 2008

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Julie Fowlis

Cuilidh | Spit + Polish
The back-up is fine, but it’s Fowlis’s soughing voice, all wind and water and machair and peewit, that’s Cuilidh ’s treasure.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  September 16, 2008



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The Gates

Public art, food for the soul
This documentary from Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Matthew Prinzing details the tortuous journey by which “The Gates” came into being.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  September 09, 2008

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Lukewarm

Trey McIntyre at the Pillow
Are we in the midst of a dance boom?
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  August 27, 2008

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Funny bones

Stockholm 59° North at the Pillow
It was the darkly comic offerings of Mats Ek in the middle, and the personable interpretations that gave the evening its distinction.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  August 19, 2008

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Words, words, words

Ammon Shea reads them all for you
Who would do such a thing?
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  August 11, 2008

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Brideshead reinterpreted

The 2008 version goes its own way
“Excuse me, Mr. Waugh, did you see the new movie version of Brideshead Revisited ?”
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  July 23, 2008



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Big Brown and the Triple Crown

Business as usual?
Horses may not talk, but money does.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 30, 2009

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Altar and ego

Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas
Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 30, 2009

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Sex and the City: The Movie

Can the hit-and-run half-hour TV format manage to stretch out to 135 minutes without resorting to obvious lessons about love and forgiveness?
What can I tell you about this eagerly awaited film sequel to the 1998–2004 HBO hit that doesn’t involve giving away the story?
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 28, 2008

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Russian revel?

Looking ahead to Ballets Russes 2009
The Russians are coming!
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 23, 2008

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Mastering the masterpieces

Boston Ballet takes on Balanchine, Tudor, and Tharp
It’s not exactly a trip down Memory Lane, but this weekend Boston Ballet is revisiting some pieces and choreographers it hasn’t performed in the Mikko Nissinen era.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 21, 2008



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Balancing act

Interview: Mikko Nissinen and Boston Ballet
It’s been quite a year for Boston Ballet.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 14, 2008

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Oscar winner?

The Lyric’s Importance of Being Earnest
The Lyric offers some sly, Wildean touches in a discreetly pruned, generally creditable production.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 13, 2008

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The Shakespeare mystery

Everything (almost) you wanted to know about Cardenio but were afraid to ask
What Shakespeare wrote and what he didn’t — even without bringing the Earl of Oxford into it — is one of literature’s most enduring and enjoyable mysteries.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 07, 2008

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Big pond, little pond

Swan Lake  in Boston and Providence
Swan Lake is ballet’s prima ballerina because, 131 years after its Moscow premiere, it’s still poised on pointe.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 07, 2008

Oppositions

The Kirov's Balanchine at City Center
The end of a three-week, thousands-of-miles-from-home season is never the right time to assess a dance company.
By: JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 30, 2009


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