Dancin' with Gershwin

(Smuin Ballet, 1 June 2008)
A toast to youth, if not immortality; to youth with its imperfections, which are transient, with its physical attraction, which is transient, with its openness and discovery, which make it immortal. The first act lacked continuity in musical numbers or lacked pauses between the numbers. The absence of a live orchestra is probably responsible for these deficiencies. Phrasing of some dances was rushed. Dances in the second act were longer, more earnest, and transited from one into another more naturally than in the first act.