Washington Ballet, Raising the Barre From: The Washington Post | Date: March 30, 2001| Author: Sarah Kaufman | Copyright 2001 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The Washington Ballet gave itself a mountain to climb last night at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater, performing four ballets by three giants of 20th-century dance. And by gum if the dancers weren't going to scramble and claw their way to the top. They just about made it, too.

Who, anyway, could be counted on to do justice to George Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco" and "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux," Antony Tudor's "Pillar of Fire" and Paul Taylor's "Esplanade" all in one evening? Bal...

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