![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kaschei (Cory Stearns), left, faces off with Ivan (Marcelo Gomes) during the American Ballet Theatre performance of “Firebird” for a benefit gala at the Music Center. (They also found Copeland-as-Firebird books and dolls on sale in the Dorothy Chandler lobby.) But the marginalization of the title character meant that the ballet belonged to the unusually playful hero Ivan, interpreted with great assurance by Marcelo Gomes. ![]() Keeping a star-dancer offstage when the composer wanted her in the spotlight muted Copeland’s dazzle during a special Music Center benefit Thursday, though ticket holders paid up to $308 (not including the after-party) to see her decked out in Galina Solovyeva’s fiery tutu. Ratmansky, assigned to other American Ballet Theatre dancers much of the music that Igor Stravinsky composed for her character.Ī Firebird corps inherited most of her opening solo and, later on, this Firebird was allowed only sporadic appearances in the sequence where, in other versions, she alone destroys the forces of evil. Watching Copeland dance “Firebird” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, we saw a wonderful ballerina come to terms with a not-so-wonderful role. ![]()
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