Beautiful, rich costumes ! Beautiful backdrops ! Beautiful and wonderfully sensitive dancing! It was a real pleasure to watch these performances (I sat through all 3 of them !) Jennifer Grapes, Priscilla Crommelin-Monnier and Kyana Goodyear danced the principal roles of Odette and Odile with beautiful sensitivity. I could "feel" their hearts as they danced. The supporting roles were also beautifully danced. I really loved the syncronicity, precision and energy of Laura de Guia Villalobos's and Jared Jacoby's performances as the Neapolitan Lady and Gentleman. The role of the Queen Mother was played with a real sense of regality. ...and not to be forgotten, the Corps de Ballet. Wow!! They came together so beautifully and their hand/arm movements were so sinuous, so graceful, that they truly captured the feeling and grace that we associate with swans. It left me with a feeling of awe and beauty...I just loved watching them dance and looked forward to seeing them with each performance. Great dancing comes from great feeling, the same as great acting, and you could feel that these dancers were really immersed in their characters as it showed in the sensitivity with which they danced/performed their roles. BRAVO !!!
Montgomery Performing Arts Centre @
- Montgomery @
, AL @
- Sat, Feb 18, 2012 @
Favorite moment: There were many such moments, even more than I noted above... A real feast for the eyes, the ears and the heart ! @