Article: Christmas Ballet.(Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA)

Like a good host, Michael Smuin wants to entertain his guests. What he doesn't realize is that cheap champagne loses its fizz the minute you open the bottle. And that's unfortunate since Smuin's considerable theatrical flair and the fluidity with which he handles dance vocabulary of almost any kind should have produced a frothy entertainment less flat than what he served in his new Christmas Ballet.

Despite some delightful moments, this holiday diversion induces more fatigue than exhilaration. Some of it can be attributed to the format. Divided into two parts, "The Classical Christmas" and "The Cool Christmas," Smuin set a total of twenty-six of the greatest hits of ...

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