Lewis Segal

Formerly staff dance critic at the Los Angeles Times, Segal is a freelance arts writer based in Hollywood and Barcelona. His essay on Nikolai Tsiskaridze appears in Nina Alovert's exhaustive study on the Bolshoi Ballet star, recently published in Moscow.

San Francisco Review: Universal Ballet in ‘Shim Chung’ – Imitation Petipa, Korean Style

by Lewis Segal August 23, 2011 Reviews
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What you do find is absolute unanimity of impetus, a sense that dancers from more than a dozen countries are in perfect agreement about all the niceties of ballet placement, execution and style. No polyglot everything-and-nothing internationalism, no Vaganova bumping into Cecchetti or Balanchine. Just the focused, detailed singularity and refinement that classical dancing should always offer but seldom does any more.

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Dance Commentary: Naples Observ’d or a Plot Discovered – The Royal Danish Ballet Confronts Its Heritage

by Lewis Segal July 31, 2011 Interviews / Features
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With all its faults and lapses, the Hübbe/Englund “Napoli” is encouraging because it attempts to derive a vital experience from a shopworn national treasure…

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