FIRST POSITION SPOTLIGHT p. 10 | ANATOMY OF A SCENE p. 11 | EN POINTE p. 12 | UPLIFT p. 13
A portrait of composer Frédéric Chopin by then-16-year-old and ex-fiance Maria Wodzinska. Courtesy of public domain.
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Love Through Nocturnes A closer look at Frédéric Chopin’s nocturnes in Jerome Robbins’ In the Night , weaving a tapestry of the stages of love.
By Jasmine Fuller Cane
HOUSTON BALLET
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