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Article: Hot Legs in San Jose.(San Jose Ballet Company)
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 2002
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Hot Legs in San Jose Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley San Jose Center for the Performing Arts San Jose, California October 18, 2001
The American premiere of Flemming Flindt's Red Shoes, or Legs of Fire was a sexy, rambunctious affair. Flindt has revised the piece since its 1998 Royal Danish Ballet world premiere (originally called Legs of Fire), notably commissioning a new cabaret scene from composer Erik Norby that fit very nicely into his original jazzy score. The familiar plot turns out to be not quite as familiar as audiences might know from Michael Powell's film or even Lubovitch's versions--and certainly it is far from the original Hans Christian Andersen ...