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CBT Takes Screen to Stage
IN CHARLESTON BALLET’s performance, “The Golden Oscar,” two choreographers (Stephen Gabriel and Jonathan Tabbert) took nine movies from recent years and translated them from the screen to the stage. The dances were a distillation of the films, going straight to the human condition and using the vocabulary of movement to speak what actors, cameramen,... Read »
Cracking the Nut of Ballet
MY FAVORITE piece of choreography in this year’s Nutcracker by Charleston Ballet Theatre was surprisingly simple. At one moment, as the Nutcracker (Jonathan Tabbert) and Maria (Jennifer Muller) stood next to each other at the back corner of the stage, they began to move diagonally toward the audience. As they did, he wrapped his... Read »
Nutcracker Brings it All Home
THE HOLIDAYS are not complete without the requisite performance of the timeless classic The Nutcracker, seemingly performed in every city throughout the world in some size shape or form for decades and decades. The question then begs: how do you keep it fresh? How do you keep it relevant? Charleston Ballet Theatre manages to... Read »
Challenges of Choreography
THE MUSIC of standard (classical) ballet is instrumental. And because there are no words to get in the way—of the choreographer, the dancers, or the audience—expression through movement, and its interpretation, are free to span a wide spectrum, and to take their time doing it. Things get tougher for everyone, though, when there are... Read »
