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| | village voice > theater > Emilia Galotti by Michael Feingold |
 | | While the National Ballet of China was performing at the Opera House, some members of what is apparently its white European wing got lost, wandered onto the nearby BAM Harvey stage, and took the places of a German troupe, from Berlin's Deutsches Theater, that was supposed to be performing Lessing's Emilia Galotti. |
 | | At least, what went on at the Harvey certainly looked more like a Chinese ballet than a production of Emilia Galotti. |
 | | There was Chinese movie music (mostly interminable repetitions of a tacky waltz theme from Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love); there were dislocated, endlessly repeated gestures that suggested some Delsarte-like system, remote from Western culture, for conveying emotion. |
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