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Riffing on Broadway: shows find new life as choreographers' inspiration.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Riffing on Broadway: shows find new life as choreographers' inspiration.(On Broadway)

Article Excerpt
A confession: I've never liked Jerome Robbins' West Side Story Suite for New York City Ballet as much as I think I should.

There are many reasons to be grateful for this anthology of dances from his great, groundbreaking musical. At a time when full-scale Broadway revivals are ridiculously expensive and fraught with risk, this New York City Ballet staple keeps some of the musical theater's great treasures on the stage. Musicians perform Leonard Bernstein's ravishing score; dancers perform Robbins' ravishing choreography; audiences get a taste of an iconic show.

But somehow, it always leaves me unsatisfied. I've seen West Side Story Suite many times, and often with my very favorite City Ballet dancers. It doesn't matter--I always leave feeling as though I've just read a synopsis rather than a novel. Unmoored from the ebb and flow...

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