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Article: Rebecca Kelly Dance.(Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, New York, New York)
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 1995
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Rebecca Kelly Dance billed its program at the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse (October 27-28, 1994) as "New Ballet." Chamber-size ballet in a suitably scaled auditorium ideally inspires thoughts of London's Ballet Club and its Mercury Theatre in the 1930s. Rewarding ballet, history reminds us, doesn't arise solely from big budgets.
Unfortunately, the standards of the danse d'ecole, which choreographer Kelly so plainly invokes, failed to be met fully by this showing. The most rewarding of the program's ...