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Article: Cincinnati Ballet.(Dance Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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CINCINNATI BALLET ARONOFF CENTER, CINCINNATI, OH OCTOBER 8-9, 2004
Cincinnati Ballet created the world anew (choreographically) by reviving Leonide Massine's monumental Seventh Symphony, to Beethoven, produced by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1938 and not seen in America since the 1948-49 season.
Johanna Bernstein Wilt, the company's ballet mistress, reconstructed the choreography from old rehearsal films; Frederic Franklin, the Ballet Russe's 90-year-old former star who was featured in the ballet's premiere, meticulously coached file cast. Because no films survive of the finale, the company offered only three of the work's four movements. But they ...