Fifty-seven years after the Firebird II headlined the GM Motorama, the turbines are no longer needed.
Since 1910, productions of "The Firebird" taking something of a lead from Michel Fokine's Ballets Russes staging have tended to close on a stately note with a ceremonious coronation and wedding.
WSJ: Firebird | American Ballet Theatre | Ratmansky's Fresh Fantasy | By Robert Greskovic
Kaschei's efforts to keep his female captives in submission and put Ivan under his spell turn futile once the white-clad hero waves the feather he gained for granting freedom to the firebird.
WSJ: Firebird | American Ballet Theatre | Ratmansky's Fresh Fantasy | By Robert Greskovic
The encounter detailing Ivan's eagerness to capture the firebird that has landed in his midst plays out as an athletic tussle between a determined hunter and an agitated avian in heart-pounding panic, trying to break away.
WSJ: Firebird | American Ballet Theatre | Ratmansky's Fresh Fantasy | By Robert Greskovic
The smashing of the pristine egg, which is revealed to Ivan by the firebird as if she were a woodpecker as it lies within the towering trunk of one of the Hydralike, metallic trees that dominate the enchanted garden leads to a dissipation of the ballet's building tensions.
WSJ: Firebird | American Ballet Theatre | Ratmansky's Fresh Fantasy | By Robert Greskovic
Some of the investments are made alongside Dagvadorj, and Firebird is the largest foreign owner of shares on the Mongolian Stock Exchange.
Mr. Ratmansky, taking a cue from the "General Rejoicing" description that Stravinsky gave to his score's ending, turns the tableau into a vortex, with his firebird held aloft and spun over the scene.
WSJ: Firebird | American Ballet Theatre | Ratmansky's Fresh Fantasy | By Robert Greskovic
Aside from his wrestling savvy, Dagvadorj boasts another advantage?a U.S. investor, James Passin of the New York-based Firebird Fund.
Up to this point the choreographic action has elicited as much delighted laughter, unusual for "Firebird" productions, as it has drawn audiences into the fairy-tale twists and turns of its narrative.
WSJ: Firebird | American Ballet Theatre | Ratmansky's Fresh Fantasy | By Robert Greskovic
Mr. Catsimatidis was honored by organizers of the Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade as "man of the year, " and he rode the route in an open-top royal blue 1969 Pontiac Firebird.
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