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Article: HOUSTON BALLET AND BOSTON BALLET.(Review)
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- June 1, 1999
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HOUSTON BALLET AND BOSTON BALLET BROWN THEATER, HOUSTON MARCH 4-14, 1999 SHUBERT THEATRE, BOSTON MARCH 9, 1999
Cynically speaking, the dance world always subliminally demands and then apparently anoints a current "hottest young choreographer." Sometimes this title seems to be bestowed by a consensus of lemmings; at the moment its two chief contenders are Stanton Welch of The Australian Ballet and Christopher Wheeldon of New York City Ballet (via Britain's Royal Ballet). They probably deserve the anointing more than most.
At the Brown Theater on March 4, Ben Stevenson's Houston Ballet offered the world premiere of Welch's Indigo, while at the Shubert ...