| The Nutcracker |
December 2003 |
National Ballet of Canada |
| "Chan Hon Goh makes an exquisite
Sugar Plum, dancing with such luminous brilliance she
takes your breath away." |
Gary Smith
The Hamilton Spectator,
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
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| "Chan Hon Goh (Sugar Plum Fairy)
and Aleksandar Antonijevic (Peter/Prince) are two of the
best classicists in the company, and they were simply
superb together in their pas de deux, and separately in
their solo variations." |
Paula Citron
The Globe and Mail
Monday, December 15, 2003
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| Chaconne |
2003 |
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet |
| "Goh was beautifully poised throughout,
with an especially eerie lightness in "La Sonnambula"
(to haunting music by Vittorio Rieti). She is a small-built,
delicate dancer, but her range of expression goes far
beyond that of a precious daintiness. In "Meditation",
she showed a free-spirited, sensual streak, while in the
difficult, off-axis turns and retracted angles of "Chaconne"
she was untouchably regal." |
Sarah Kaufman
Washington Post
Monday, December 8, 2003
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| "Goh is fleet and delicate, and
her dancing found the giggles in the music." |
Alexandra
Tomalonis
The Washington Post
The Washington Post USA
October 28, 2002
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| "The pinnacle of the Suzanne Farrell
Ballet's recent engagement at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower
Theater was George Balanchine's "Chaconne",
illuminated by the dancing of Peter Boal and Chan Hon
Goh and Miss Farrell's overall staging.
Miss Goh, a principal with the National Ballet of Canada
who has appeared with the Farrell Ballet before, outdid
herself with her freshness, charm and delicately nuanced
phrasing.
Dance is tantalizing ephemeral, an art that vanishes
in the air even as it is being performed. So the intensity
of the moment belonged to those two golden dancers and
their memorable performance."
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Jean Battey
Lewis
The Washington Times USA
November 2, 2002
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| Meditations |
2003 |
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet |
| "Together he and Miss Goh brought
magic to Mr. Balanchine's stirringly romantic "Meditations,"
the very first ballet the choreographer created for Miss
Farrell. It is a work that drips with longing and unfulfilled
passion. In lesser hands, it could be awash in sentimentality.
With these two performers it became an image of lost love
that was infinitely touching and tender." |
Jean Battey
Lewis
The Washington Times
Monday, December 8, 2003
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| Mozartiana |
2003 |
The Suzanne Farrel Ballet |
| "Chan Hon Goh, a ballerina on loan
from the National Ballet of Canada, is as different a
dancer from Farrell as can be imagined - light, delicate,
a born Giselle, with none of Farrell's wild, off-center
power. Yet she's always found a way to make roles created
on Farrell her own. There's a shy, visible joy in her
dancing, which was appropriate here (after a thoughtful
Preghiera) and the third and fourth solos of the Theme
et Variations, especially, were beautifully danced." |
Alexandra
Tomalonis
DanceView Times, Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
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| Tchaikovsky's Pas de Deux |
2003 |
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet |
| "The bravura of the Tchaikovsky
Pas de Deux delivered with uncommon good taste and pyrotechnical
pizzazz by the vivacious Chan Hon Goh of the National
Ballet of Canada and New York Ballet veteran Peter Boal." |
Allan Ulrich
Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Mixed Program
Monday, November 17, 2003
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| Serenade |
2003 |
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet |
| "Serenade's" moonlit journey
included superb performances from the entire cast, but
most notably from Chan Hon Goh, of the National Ballet
of Canada, for whom the words "tensile delicacy"
seem to have been invented" |
Janice Berman
San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, November 17, 2003
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| Apollo |
2003 |
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet / National Ballet of Canada |
| "The fine-boned Chan Hon Goh deserved
pride of place as Terpsichore." |
Lewis Segal
Los Angeles Times Calendar
Monday, November 10, 2003
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| "Apollo dazzles with its images
Terpsichore (Chan Han Goh), her hands cupped tenderly
to hold Apollo's head, then balanced like a boat upon
his outstretched neck and head. Goh embodies her muse
fully; she dances to her very fingertips, her hand fluttering
like butterflies." |
Paula Citron
The Daily News Halifax
Nova Scotia June 4, 2002
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| Le Corsaire / Paquita |
August 2003 |
National Academy Orchestra (Brott Festival) |
| "If there is a more musical pair
in ballet today than Chan Hon Goh and Rex Harrington I
don't know who they are. Goh is an exceptional artist
with an elegant and stretched line. She carries her body
in that mysterious ballet-way that says here is a vessel
for dance, now pour some poetry through me. Her balances,
beautifully and breathlessly sustained - along with those
amazing corkscrew pirouettes and posed arabesques - were
technically dazzling." |
Gary Smith
Special to The Hamilton Spectator
August 2003
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| Jewels (Diamonds) |
February/March 2003 |
The National Ballet of Canada |
| "A lyrical primaballerina of plush
and clear-cut movements, Chan Hon Goh, gave an impressively
strong but nevertheless truly feminine interpretation,
without falling into the trap to dance as redesigned Petipa's
ballerina." |
Tamara Tomic
Orchestra Dance Magazine
Winter/Spring 2004
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| Raymonda Variations |
2002 |
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet |
| "Goh is a delicate and subtle dancer.
Her dancing was beautifully articulated." |
Alexandra
Tomalonis
The Washington Post USA
October 25, 2002
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| Firebird |
2002 |
National Ballet of Canada |
| "Goh's gorgeous, lighter-then-air
technique deliciously captured the delicacy of the bird" |
Paula Citron
The Globe and Mail
November 18, 2002
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| "in this revival the lovely Chan
Hon Goh made a particularly flighty Firebird" |
William Littler
Toronto Star
November 18, 2002
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| "Chan Hon Goh is mesmerizing as
the hypnotic Firebird with her desperately beating wings" |
Gary Smith
The Hamilton Spectator
November 20, 2002
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| Sleeping Beauty Pas de deux |
2002 |
National Ballet of Canada |
| "For the excerpt from the classic
Sleeping Beauty, Chan Hon Goh danced the part of Princess
Aurora with Guillaume Cote as Prince Florimund. Goh was
light and eminently graceful with attention to details
from fingertips to facial expressions." |
The Daily
Gleaner Fredericton
New Brunswick
June 10, 2002
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| "Fans of purely classical ballet
will like the showy and high-spirited pas de deux from
Sleeping Beauty, with Chan Hon Goh as an elegant and rapidly
spinning Princess Aurora, with that great swan dive towards
the floor, and Guillaume Cote, whose perfect landing on
a spinning jump took the breath away, as Prince Florimund" |
The Chronicle-Herald
Halifax
Nova Scotia June 4, 2002
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| Sleeping Beauty |
2002 |
National Ballet of Canada |
| "Chan Hon Goh and Aleksander Antonijevic
were both exquisite as Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund,
she the consummate ballerina, he the quintessential danseur
noble." |
Paula Citron
The Globe and Mail
Feb.22, 2002
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| "With fine work from the flawless
Chan Hon Goh as Princess Aurora...." |
John Coulboum
Toronto Sun
Feb.22, 2002
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| "Chan Hon Goh and Aleksander Antonijevic
were a picture- book couple, porcelain in motion in the
ballet's central roles. In their, perfect pristine beauty,
they suggested the awakening of a spiritual love embodying
the purest romantic intentions." |
Gary Smith
The Hamilton Spectator
Feb.22, 2002
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| Romeo and Juliet |
2002 |
National Ballet of Canada |
| "On Feb. 10, Chan Hon Goh danced
Juliet as if she were brought into this world to play
that role. Her Juliet is a girl unable to hide her feelings
as she is pummeled by a lifetime's worth of experience.
Emotion washes over her as fluidly as water, and every
thought is reflected on her face." |
Rebecca Todd
Eye Arts
Feb.14, 2002
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| "Goh is a brilliant Juliet, lyric
and lovely. Her delicate little bourrees skim the stage
with graceful longing. You believe immediately she's desperately
in love. She acts the role from the inside out, radiating
such carnal longing, you immediately know this Juliet
is willing to risk everything for the enraptured love
of a boy she's capriciously just met." |
Gary Smith
The Hamilton Spectator
Feb.13, 2002
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