recent reviews
Tulsa's best goes on display in 'Carmina'
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Tulsa World Scene Writer
Published: 5/24/2010
'Pop' rocks: 3 ballets are exquisite
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Tulsa World Scene Writer
Published: 4/20/2010
Bigger Venue Adds Spice to "This Is Your Life"
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Tulsa World Scene Writer
Published: 3/22/2010
'Sleeping Beauty' awakens magic of ballet at its best
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Tulsa World Scene Writer
Published: 2/15/2010
Flashy dancing makes 'Nutcracker' first-rate
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Tulsa World Scene Writer
Published: 12/14/2009
'Dracula' captivating but very scary
PAC audience gets a tasty Halloween treat
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Tulsa World Scene Writer
Published: 10/31/2009
Tulsa Ballet wows NYC
Season opener is its first there since the '80s
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Tulsa World Scene Writer
Published: 8/12/2009
International and National Quotes…
“…30 dancers from 15 nationalities work at a level of expertise one would expect to see in a major coastal city or in Europe. The repertoire has attracted an extraordinary pool of talent and has put this mid-American company in the international eye.”
-- Dance Magazine, March 2005
“Mercury Rising. Ma Cong (Tulsa Ballet Principal Dancer). One of the 25 to Watch.” Dance Magazine’s annual look at who’s new and breaking through in 2006.
-- Dance Magazine, January 2006
“Tulsa Ballet is notable for its willingness to dream big and to inspire big support and excitement as it achieves its dreams.” “…in addition to the superb classical dancing of those 32 men and women…demonstrate that what Tulsa (Artistic) Director Marcello Angelini has long worked for is beginning to materialize, in quite dramatic fashion. This is indeed a company to be taken seriously. Such warmth and purity would be remarkable even at an American Ballet Theatre (New York City) or a San Francisco Ballet. Here in Tulsa, it is increasing business as usual.”
-- the Dance insider, February 2006
“To look at what Marcello Angelini has accomplished in 13 years at Tulsa Ballet is to see what a community-based arts revolution looks like. Thirteen years of serious imagining, planning, fundraising, and creating have resulted not only in the development of a company recognized for excellence at home and abroad, but now also in a newly renovated and expanded rehearsal and school facility and an adjacent very modern, very spectacular $5 million theater, Studio K - Kivisto Hall, dedicated to the creation of new work.”
-- Dance Insider, May 2008
“…Tulsa Ballet, one of the best in the world.”
–The Semanario, national magazine, for the Sintra, Portugal performances July 2002
“The highlight points of the BALLET EXPO SEOUL 2008 were defitely the Contemporary Ballet Evening performance and the guest ballet companies from abroad…. Among them, Tulsa ballet from USA was defiantly distinguished in performance scale and choice of their performing works.
--Mom magazine. September issue. Page 81
Seoul, South Korea
BRILLIANT YOUNG DANCERS
The Tulsa Ballet from Oklahoma, USA at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb
“Throughout the three ballets, the talented young dancers, about twenty of them, (whose artistic director is Marcello Angelini) convincingly showed three completely different aspects of the modern world.”
--MILICA JOVIĆ, Školske novine, daily newspaper
VISITING PERFORMANCE: Tulsa Ballet from Oklahoma at the Zagreb CNT
PURE DANCING POETRY
“The director Marcello Angelini achieves new accomplishments with the ensemble, whilst numerous similar American ballet ensembles are in a crisis or are even closing down
On Sunday, at the Zagreb CNT the Tulsa Ballet with its visiting performance prepared an unforgettable evening. It presented three diverse shorter ballets that gave an insight into the great technical potentials and training of the ensemble and some specifics that are cherished in the repertoire”
--VIJENAC, April 26, 2007 pg. 21
“Indescribable lightness of dancing Tulsa Ballet under the artistic leadership of Marcello Angelini dances and impressive and diverse repertoire with an envious number of works by the most significant choreographers of modern ballet and dance theatre: from Tudor, Robbins and Balanchine, Cullberg and Jooss, to Taylor and Duato”
“An immense and contagious energy and beauty, indescribable purity and lightness of dancing, by nationality Babylonian diversity of the American Tulsa Ballet fascinated and with a magic of another world filled the stage and the auditorium of the CNT in Zagreb on April 22, 2007.”
--MAJA ĐURINOVIĆ VIJENAC, April 26, 2007 pg. 21, Belgrade
Tulsa Ballet, Small Town, Big Success
Oklahoma Rising
“It was Artistic Director Marcello Angelini’s dream to build a world-class company from the moment he decided to give up his career as a dancer and take artistic control of TB in 1995. Some would say he has succeeded…. His company is one where dancers’ thrive. Because the vision is so wide….you get the feeling that here, with Tulsa Ballet, you can do anything”
--Pointe Magazine, March 2008
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