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SEI` ,I SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
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BY JORDAN LEVIN'
jlevin @MiamiHerald.com
Miami City , Ballet
opened 4ts season Friday r
night with Allegro'' Brit -,, I '
lante, the same piece that'
opened the company's first
performance in 1986: Aile -' .
gro 'is /a condensed and',
fractured primer of George T' .
Balanchine's vision of clas-
sical ballet; ' and as-,'such
was a kind of linchpin'for
;.
`
.the' company's develop=
ment — and in -a different
way, for, this season as
well. There are no new bal-
lets slate - w
d this ear and so
the pleasures of this first
program at the Adrienne" r
Arsht Center for the Per -
forming Arts — and the } f j
ones;we have to look for-' a
ward to are those'
Y
already built int:64he rep-
ertory, , the style and ' the x '°
dancers that are there.
In a ,way, this ,season
will be a' test'. for South
Florida audiences as much
TIM
.'as for MCB. Do audiences''
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like the company as it is? 9
And'can the dancers keep
finding inspiration in the
pieces they know ?' -
In Allegro, the pleasure AL DIA2 /MIAMI HERALD STAFF
largely came from Jeanette ON STAGE: Mar Car�men Cato
Delgado,' who, no matter, ` Y , ya and Renato'
the speed or difficulty of'' Penteado perform'`Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' for: • '
the choreography — co' n - the'Mlarmi City Ball'et.' `
siderabl&` in' the lead of
Allegro always, looks `• atricality' that, showcases he, simply, steps out of her '
like she's 'simply, joyfully individual ' dancers in a, arms• and into the disap-
dancing. - Whether she's very different' way from 'pearirig line of men. `
whipping through turns to most of MCB's otherrep -, ; ;The ;,dfagonal - line','of
whoosh into a deeply tilted 'ertoire. Set to, World War i girls' iri white that opens
penche arabesque, or set-, II -era Andrews Sisters Symphony, in Three Aiove- '
tling luxuriously; arms songs, Company -B is ,vin - Ments drew applause in the '
stroking the air; out' of `a tage Taylor: It layers road way,' a lavish set :usually
turn, 'Delgado combine's ;comedy with sharpipsy- does. The architectural
bright, girlish,exhilaration cho,logical insight) and grandeur of Balanchine's,
with a confident womanly dark, unexpected uiider= choreography; the way the ,
glamour.'Rolando Sarabia" tones. Alex WongAi.,a rushing, precisely struc-
gracefully enabled .her.', smooth, 'crackling 'high ture'd groups and .lines of .
pyrotechnics.. flyer (he does a horizontal dancers seem to make" the
Mary Carmen' Catoya, ','airborne' barrel turn' that stage space `expand ''and
who was 'showing a' dis- 'you have to see to believe) contract ;'the synchroniza-
comforting tension, in face . -in' Tico . Tico, and` Daniel tion • with ,`Stravinsky's
and body last season, had Sarabia is hilarious as" the powerfully dissonant and -
her,moxie'back in Balan cartoonishly strutting, hip emotional' music '= ."all
chine's Tschaikovsky Pas,' thrusting.' hot rod, , sur- ' combine for their own kind,
de Deux, the'kind of classi -- rounded by simpering = of stark grandeur. Jennifer ;
cal showcase in,which she girl's, of . Oh', Johnny Oh - Kronenberg and husband "
excels: blistering through a Johnny.' I Carlos Guerra brought a
chain of turns to stop on a .' Daniel Baker's virtuos- wonderful intimacy to the l
breath,'or balancing on one ity'in Boogie Woogie,Bugle, odd, origami lyricism' and
pointe for a seemingly end- Boy; looks wonderfully arch eroticism of the cen-
less sequence of unfolding - light 'and,, natural; land tral ,duet. - Kronenberg
arabesques. • Renato', Pen - Jeanette Delgado'ss *ay= didn't seem bold enough in
teado always had athletic ing hips and crotch -flash- the- tislashing• , sections
ability, but you used to' see ing splits bowl, the ' Boy's before, but for the duet she '
his effort ancl, tension. Now over in-Rum and Coke. But ` was so funed'into Guerra
he's far - more confident' , the men often march 'in the ; air, between them
and easy, flying higher on' shadow; slowly lunging as seemed', tangible. 'It' was „
the big' jumps, cleaner, , if firing a rifle, or tumbling nice to 'see how familiar•
quicker, stronger,, garner= to "the floor, across Ithei they were with each other.
ing-applause effortlessly. . rear; a , backdrop of . foss.
Paul Taylor's Company' When Patricia 'Delgado p MIaMiHdrald.com/1:
B was'a South Florida audi- ' hurls herself at Yang Zods `metro '
ence favorite in the mid- , feet in the plaintive Theee, . View a photo;gallery. •' '
'90s, with a humor and the- Will Never Be Another'You; from the Miami City Ballet.
THEATER REVIEW I
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BY CHRISTINE DOLEN ; in a blackout :after 'an
cdolen @MiamiHereld.com i``_ " u { intended comic 'payoff,',,
If -„'
Seth Rozin's'-TWo Jews' yo g , o � i Two Jews Walk Into a -War
Walk-Into 'd War, a new starts ,to feeI'niore like a
comedy ow launchin What: Two Jews Walk Into',
y g' a a war by Seth Rozin skit in 'a Catskills hotel
premiere- filled season at - ' showroom,- than a fully'
Florida Stage, has been lik- Where: Florida Stage, 262 ", ; developed play. And' the ,
ene'd by folks at the Mana- S. Ocean'Blvd, Manalapan, . sentimental - arc .Rozin
(- la an theater, to earlier through Nov. 29 _
P - gives the men becomes a
plays by Neil.Simon (The ' '`When: 8 p.m. Wednesday - dramaturgical,device, not
Odd Couple or The Sun' Saturday, 2 P.M. Wednes- ' i credible emotional jour-
ay Boys', take your pick) day'and Saturday - Sunday, - !i:"ney. l
and Samuel Beckett (Wait- Cost: $,48 Friday - Sunday• Hoffman; who soldiered
in or Godot). evening, $ '45 other shows = ��
gf bravely -on despite appar-
The comparisons ,are Info: 1-800-514-3837 or, ently not feeling. well' ,
understandable'' -Rozin , • ,wwmfloridakage.org`,. "'' ; opening night; ,. ,plays;
gives us two incompatible `, ' `, ,' Zeblyanas an energetic,,
but amusing Jewish men' optimistic, guy who isn't
living 'in a bombed -out orate Hanukkah at the syn=- afraid to'acknowledge the
Kabul synagogue, waiting agogue where the , two. , yearnings of , the flesh. '
for heaven knows what — dived, while deeply loath'' McConnell's Ishaq , -is
yet invoking either,Simon ing each other.'Though the crankier, -'more devout,
or Beckett is'a big stretch. - men had familiesliving in 'determined that his faith
While the company does 'Israel, they stubbornly and ; live'on in, his -homeland.'.,
its usual impeccable job miserably stayed on. The"'' As much "as the actors
with casting, direction and` media dubbed them "the) -,, do to freneticallysell'Two
design, the script is neither, last two Jews in Afghani -' Jews Walklnto'•a,War; the
as adroitly; crafted 'as Stan." .` , • ; play's most" artftil' work'
Simon's "early comedies, Two Jews Walk Into a 'comes from set ;and light-',,
nor as existentially myste'-, War takes that basic'situa= ing • designer ', Richard
rious as Beckett's work. "tion; changes the, charac Crowell. `Crowell, doesn't
Rozin, aplaywright'who ",tars' name"-and tries. ;t'o'.` just supply•a'sniall ;',par-
is'-also''the founder, and= .turn it 'into a 'rollicking; tially wrecked'synag'
artistic director of Phila- touching comedy. Oh, the; `, in a war zone., He actually
delphia's InterAct Theatre laughs are there: Avi Hoff`,_'
off -` ,_ rigs' its " hat, after 'explo-
Company; based Two Jews. man, who plays the,youn- '.•sions or.the sound of gun -
Walk 'Into ' a - War, on the gar Zeblyan, and' Gordon',' fire, pieces- of the set go
real 'story of. Isaac 'Levin', McConnell, as the older-',j, tumbling, flying or cruet- '
and Zebulon Simentov.' Ishaq, are both deft comic Ming. Now that's great the -
When Afghanistan's cruel . actors, and director, Louis ; ater: -Two Jews Walk Into a ;
Taliban government was Tyrrell -is adroit at keeping War? Not so much
overthrown ' in '2001, a comedy buoyant.,, Christine Dolan is'The
NATO forces discovered But as short, scene after '•Miami;' Herald's 'theater
the men preparing to'cele- ; short scene flies by,,endirig ,critic.
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HITTING THE HIGH NOTE
,Western High band clarinetists Armando'Avila, Kimberly'Appolon and
Carolina' Bosco'move.to their music at the High School Marching Band
Music Performance Assessments- Saturday at Coral Springs High.
To view more photos from the, performance, visit MiamiHerald.com.
BROWARD,COUNTY
Cops: Man stabs ex- lover;" kills a friend
BY JOSE PAGLIERY with Gayle last week and Clarke walked in to save
ipagliery @MiamiHerald.com was spending Friday eve- ,.her, Hofer said. Stewart,
i A man barged, nto his, ning with `a friend she seized the opportunity,
ex- girlfriend's , Coconut recently met: 32- year -old grabbing a cordless home
Creek home on Saturday, Hasting Clarke: phone and driving off in
stabbing her and killing a But shortly after mid her car while calling, 911.
`friend When he tried to night Saturday, , Gayle Seconds later; she flagged '
protect her, police said. showed 'up� at Stewart's" down Officer Alejandro
Paul Gayle; a 28 -year- home on the 4100 block of . Escobar', "who found-her "
old security guard with a Northwest 43rd Way. wounded and frantic.
state - issued weapons He was planning to '- . He and" three- other
license, was-charged with carry out a threat ''he'd officers rushed to her
first-degree murder, made Thursday;, said house and arrested Gayle,,
attempted first - degree Detective Angela Hofer, a -who was trying to get
murder' and armed bur =' police spokeswoman. , back-into his ; car, police
glary. After barging in; Gayle said.
Coconut Creek police ;cc(rnered Stewart in a 'They . also' 'found
said Joy -' Stewart, 36, room. and' stabbed her Clarke, who was killed
ended her relationship' times''- but during the fight.
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