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Article: STEVENSON'S CLEO SAILS.(the Houston Ballet)(Brief Article)
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- June 1, 2000
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STEVENSON'S CLEO SAILS HOUSTON BALLET BROWN THEATER, WORTH THEATER CENTER HOUSTON, TEXAS MARCH 9-19
An old friend--or perhaps friendly adversary would be more apt--the late Julian Brunswig, a founder of what is now the English National Ballet, once told me that if any choreographer came to him with a plan to make a ballet out of Oliver Twist he would instantly say yes. "People know the name, you see," he argued. I wonder how much similar name-recognition played in Ben Stevenson's choice of Cleopatra for his new full-evening ballet. Certainly that Serpent of the Nile had already attracted such cinematic divas as Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert and Vivien ...