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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Roddy Doble and Patric Palkens gracefully perform their highlighted duet in "Obsidian Tear." PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘Obsidian Tear’ mesmerizes audience with abstract, unconventional ballet

Lauren Frias November 6, 2017

[mediagrid cat="45041"] A fanfare of brass instruments erupted from the orchestra pit, punctuating the nearly dead silent auditorium. The curtain raised to reveal not a cast of exquisitely dressed ballerinas,...

Lia Cirio in rehearsal for the Boston Ballet performance of “Le Corsaire.” PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Ballet “Le Corsaire” brings 19th-century ballet into modern times

Lauren Frias November 2, 2016

[mediagrid cat="34220"]A deafening silence draped over the crowd in the Boston Opera House as the lights dimmed and the curtains rose. A boat full of pirates in a stormy sea appear behind the scrim, only...

REVIEW: Comfortable “Nutcracker” feels like recurring dream

Brooke Jackson-Glidden December 4, 2014

In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s renowned ballet, “The Nutcracker,” the shifty-yet-kind Herr Drosselmeyer gives the blue-eyed, pure Clara Silberhaus a nutcracker toy for Christmas. That evening, from...

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