!" T!" T"#! F$%&'(, J)*" +, ,-./ BALLET REVIEW S Be brilliant Boston Ballet bedazzles in George Balanchine’s Jewels By Angelique Nehmzow Balanchine’s skillful and creative cho- STAFF WRITER reography, two couples and a trio inter- Jewels wove their bodies in complex routines. As if opening a treasure chest to dis- 0e act’s ending was emotionally intense, Boston Ballet cover a trove of precious stones, the au- as three male dancers lunged low to the dience oohed and aahed every time the ground, heads thrown back with one arm Boston Opera House curtains were raised to reveal dancers reaching to the sky. in glittering costumes, poised in front of Rubies, set to the dramatic Capriccio May 22 – June 1 sparkling backdrops of enormous gems. for Piano and Orchestra by Balanchine’s Boston Ballet’s 4-th season concluded close collaborator Igor Stravinsky, pro- this year with George Balanchine’s Jewels. vides a sharp contrast. 0e female danc- the splendor of classical ballet in the Rus- It was a 1tting tribute to the famed ers wore red leotards with decorated sian Imperial style and is set to Tchai- ARTS ARTS ART neoclassical choreographer on whose 8aps like miniskirts, which created “click kovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. recommendation the Ford Foundation clack” noises when they skipped play- ,5. 0e dancers wore shimmering 8oun- helped establish the Boston Ballet com- fully or did the occasional balletic booty cy white tutus, and their large number pany in .5+6. Premiered at the New York shake. reinforced the feeling of grandeur. RTS City Ballet in .5+7, Jewels was inspired by 0e male dancers were “in for the Rows of dancers moving in opposite the jewelry of Claude Arpels of Van Cleef chase,” running comically across the directions evoked re8ections from a crys- A & Arpels, and it is divided into three parts: stage. At one point four of them fawned tal. 0e main couple was stunning and Emeralds, Rubies, and Diamonds. over a long-legged female dancer, hold- imperious, and the male dancer exuded Set to music by Gabriel Fauré, Em- ing each of her arms and legs and be- gallantry and chivalry. In one striking eralds references the origins of ballet in coming extensions of them. 0e main move he dynamically released his part- .5th-century France and evokes the lux- couple performed an enthralling and ner’s hand such that she was propelled RTS ury and romance of that time. 0e female 8irtatious dance exchange, with an inti- into a spinning arabesque, and at the end dancers wore long pale-green tulle skirts mate pause in which they stood one in of their duet he knelt and kissed her hand. with bejeweled necklines and headpiec- front of the other, her right arm hooked Jewels is a showcase of the neoclas- es, and the male dancers wore dark-green over his, and his left arm crooked un- sical style, an impressionistic history of velvet waistcoats. der hers, as she slowly curled back the ballet, and a Balanchine classic. Boston ROSALIE O’CONNOR 0e dancing was graceful, calming, 1ngers of her bent left arm to touch his Ballet’s production does it full justice — Alejandro Virelles and Kathleen Breen Combes and utterly absorbing — a wonderful open palm. its dancers are, like perfect gems, bound perform in Diamonds. prescription for stress relief. Following 0e 1nal piece, Diamonds, displays to put a sparkle in your eyes. BOOK REVIEW Snowden’s relevations: the backstory Glenn Greenwald’s guide to the NSA leaks and their portrayal in the press By Yarden Katz interface. Lawyers warned Guardian editor hacking into their networks. Janine Gibson that the FBI might shut down Greenwald also demonstrates that the No Place to Hide Leaking secrets in the public interest the paper. To cover its legal bases, the pa- government spies for economic and stra- requires not only a ready and courageous per chose to inform the government of their tegic gains not even remotely connected By Glenn Greenwald whistleblower. It also demands an able and plans, resulting in more bullying of Gibson to national defense. 0e NSA has a branch courageous deliverer to carry the precious by o2cials. Greenwald describes delays and whose aim is to supply “unique intelligence message to the world. 0is year’s graduation prolonged back-and-forths with editors that on worldwide energy production and de- to dissect the legality of Snowden’s actions, week marks the one-year anniversary of the nearly caused him to quit !e Guardian and velopment in key countries that a3ect the criminalizing investigative journalists as unveiling of Edward Snowden’s identity and release the materials independently. world economy,” and it lists the departments “co-conspirators” along the way. Meanwhile the 1rst wave of explosive NSA disclosures of Treasury and Agriculture as its “Custom- evidence of a mountain of government delivered by journalist Glenn Greenwald Speaking “middle-of- ers.” 0e agency targets energy companies crimes — including government o2cials and 1lmmaker Laura Poitras. in Latin America and energy conferences, like James Clapper lying to Congress — sits In his informative new book, No Place the-road-ese”: giving exposing the lie of an NSA o2cial who told in front of them. to Hide, Greenwald recounts meeting !e Washington Post that the agency does In other instances, the press has been Snowden, verifying his story, and getting equal weight to both not engage in “economic espionage.” relentlessly yellowing and personalizing the NSA documents published. 0e book 0e book underscores the NSA’s will- Snowden’s leaks. 0is is exempli1ed by a re- reveals correspondence between Snowden sides of a story, no ingness to ignore international law. Team cent New York Times review of Greenwald’s and Greenwald, including Snowden’s mani- matter how absurd. BLARNEY is devoted to “yield access to U.N. book by Michael Kinsley, who complained festo on privacy as a human right. Apart from Secretary General talking points” so that the that the book would be “more entertaining” explaining the signi1cance and scope of the While !e Guardian was able to publish U.S. can game U.N. procedures in advance if Greenwald wasn’t such an “unpleasant” documents, Greenwald tackles head-on the relatively quickly, this isn’t always the case, too. 0e NSA spied on eight members of and “self-righteous sourpuss.” Snowden, by question of what it means to be a journalist and stalling has consequences. Bullying by U.N. Security council, and an internal memo any rational account a national hero, was as he chronicles the systemic failures of the the Bush administration in ,--/ and fear boasted that spying “gave us an upper hand described as having the “sweet, innocently U.S. media in covering whistleblowers. on the part of !e New York Times led to the in negotiations.” conspiratorial worldview of a precocious Greenwald’s account reveals that jour- story of warrantless NSA eavesdropping be- Another memo states that Susan Rice, teenager.” Sadly, this is the intellectual dis- nalists who work with whistleblowers face ing suppressed for over a year. 0e adminis- then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., “reached course one has come to expect from the a web of roadblocks — roadblocks largely tration managed to censor the Times, letting out to the NSA” to request intelligence on Times. Others in the media speculated on self-imposed by an obedient press. Prior to the Bush administration face the music only countries “riding the fence” regarding a U.N. Snowden’s psyche, labeling him a “narcissis- connecting with !e Guardian, Snowden after the ,--/ elections. vote on sanctions against Iran. 0e memos tic young man.” When given a 1rst TV inter- shared documents describing the PRISM 0e paper gave in when Times reporter debunk the notion that the NSA is a rogue view with Snowden, Brian Williams asked, surveillance program with Barton Gellman James Risen planned to break the story in group operating without the administra- “Are you a patriot?” and focused on the of !e Washington Post. Worried about the a book, and following publication the gov- tion’s backing. As a rule, the U.S. is guilty of baseless hypothetical that Snowden might legal implications of these disclosures, the ernment spied on Risen in an attempt to virtually all accusations it made against oth- leak secrets to Russia. 0e press’s rehearsal Post consulted a team of lawyers — poten- uncover his source. Regarding the press’s er ‘adversary’ states like China and Russia. of o2cial doctrine, and their manufactured tially compromising Snowden’s identity — unwritten protocol of consulting the govern- From spying for economic gain to installing symmetry between the government’s posi- and ultimately refused to send Gellman to ment about leaks, as in the case of the Times, surveillance “beacons” in Cisco routers, U.S. tion and reality, simply diverts our attention Hong Kong to meet Snowden. Greenwald writes: “0e rules in place allow hypocrisy abounds. from the magnitude and unnerving implica- By his own account, Greenwald too was the government to control and neuter the tions of the leaks. devastatingly close to letting the most sig- news-gathering process and eliminate the The government spies Snowden argued that privacy can be ni1cant government leak in U.S. history pass adversarial relationship between press and guaranteed “only if the technical commu- him by — not for fearfulness, but for tech- government.” for economic gains nity is willing to face the threat” and imple- nical reasons. Snowden contacted Green- When described together in No Place to ment a system where “the only way the wald repeatedly using a pseudonym since Hide, the documents unequivocally dem- not even remotely powerful may enjoy privacy is when it is the late ,-.,, but was unable to share informa- onstrate the NSA’s mission to “Know it all”, same kind shared by the ordinary: one en- tion due to Greenwald’s lack of encryption “Collect it all”, “Exploit it all” (the agency’s connected to national forced by the laws of nature, rather than the software.