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`CAMELLIAS' GIVES A LESSON IN STYLE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040319
Author:Christine Temin, Globe Staff

"La Dame aux Camelias," the 19th-century novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, makes a perfect plot for a ballet: Courtesan dying of consumption gives up her noble lover at the demand of his father, to save his family's honor. Beyond telling the one-sentence story legibly, the choreographer is free to create whatever comes to mind.

What came to San Francisco choreographer Val Caniparoli's mind was a ballet of extremes, veering from the giddy life of Parisian salons and ballrooms to the utter bleakness of the heroine's lonely death.

Kudos to Caniparoli for making a story ballet that's dominated by ...

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