Comments on: Cliff Rescue: Ballet Dancing Climber Avoids Landing On Head http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/cliff-rescue-ballet-dancing-climber-avoids-landing-on-head.html talking about outdoor adventure... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:51:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: stephen http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/cliff-rescue-ballet-dancing-climber-avoids-landing-on-head.html#comment-60793 stephen Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:14:45 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/cliff-rescue-ballet-dancing-climber-avoids-landing-on-head.html#comment-60793 New York City Ballet, June 7, 2002 Jerome Robbins's ''Suite of Dances'' was created for Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1994. But the solo, set to Bach music for an unaccompanied cello, can serve as an understated tour de force for any charismatic classicist. Nikolaj Hübbe, who danced it on Thursday, is certainly such a performer, and his gift for subtle dramatic inflection made ''Suite'' an unalloyed pleasure. Mr. Hübbe, who looked like a young blond prince out for a ramble in the meadow, gave each muted nonliteral gesture just enough color to make it quietly come alive. His precise but flowing shifts between styles made each ballet step, somersault and folk-tinged lunge clear and lively. New York City Ballet, June 7, 2002
Jerome Robbins’s ”Suite of Dances” was created for Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1994. But the solo, set to Bach music for an unaccompanied cello, can serve as an understated tour de force for any charismatic classicist. Nikolaj Hübbe, who danced it on Thursday, is certainly such a performer, and his gift for subtle dramatic inflection made ”Suite” an unalloyed pleasure.

Mr. Hübbe, who looked like a young blond prince out for a ramble in the meadow, gave each muted nonliteral gesture just enough color to make it quietly come alive. His precise but flowing shifts between styles made each ballet step, somersault and folk-tinged lunge clear and lively.

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