The Palm Beach Symphony will play Shostakovich during a January showing of the silent film 'Battleship Potemkin.' (Courtesy Palm Beach Symphony)

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BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Kravis Center, Jan. 13, accompanied live with music by Shostakovich

It would probably be churlish to point out that Shostakovich not only never wrote a score for Battleship Potemkin, he never wrote a score for a film by Eisenstein (that was Prokofiev). I guess those Russians all sound alike. Or at least the Palm Beach Symphony, which will play the adapted score at the Kravis Center, hopes they do.

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SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE
Miami City Ballet, Kravis Center, Jan. 15-17
One of Richard Rodgers’ best scores, rhythmic and jazzy, combined with the choreography of George Balanchine, one of the premier artists of the 20th century. It should be an unforgettable union at the Kravis Center: lyricism and a beat, abandonment and sex.

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Performance illustrations commissioned from noted artist Mark Stutzman.

OTELLO
Palm Beach Opera, Kravis Center, Jan. 22-25

Verdi’s second-to-last opera, and quite possibly his greatest — it brought him out of retirement. The role has provided Placido Domingo with great opportunity in the latter portion of his career, and it will be interesting to see whether the Palm Beach Opera can match a singer of comparable, if not exactly equivalent sonic splendor with the sumptuous production expected of Verdi operas.

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DANCES AT A GATHERING
Miami City Ballet, Kravis Center, April 16-18

Jerome Robbins spent much of his life ricocheting between popular and high art, with received opinion often preferring his work on Broadway. But this ballet is almost universally acknowledged to be his classical masterpiece, one, moreover, that’s rarely performed in these parts.

Dancers of Pilobolus Dance Theatre perform during the rehearsal of their new show 'Shadowland' on September 16, 2009 in Madrid. (Pierre-Phillippe Marcou / AFP / Getty Images)

PILOBOLUS DANCE COMPANY
Duncan Theatre, April 16-17
Part modern dance, part gymnastics, always inventive and often witty, Pilobolus has been around since the early 1970s, and often focuses on exaggeration or contortions of the human form.