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Rebels On Pointe is a very affectionate profile by Canadian award-winning documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart on Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo an American all-male (and proudly openly gay) Ballet Company corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet. Harte adopts a cinema vérité approach with her very entertaining film that takes us … Continue reading
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The Accompanist is the feature film directing debut of actor Frederick Keeve who not only writes the script, takes the starring role, is the producer, but also composes the soundtrack. It does mean however that this queer drama lacks input from others that could have helped the film have a little less melodrama and … Continue reading
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” It’s impossible to believe that the very first performance of Tchaikovsky‘s most famous ballet in 1892 was a flop. The poor ballerina who was dancing as the Sugar Plum Fairy was criticised for being “corpulent” and “podgy”. We not sure if that critic was alive now and saw Vanessa White’s new production what … Continue reading
