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observations 4/20
and we’re off and running in the 2026 tournament of ballet champions. The universe is sprinkling such good karma all over Haglund. Tomorrow New York City Ballet opens the spring season with a superbly…
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observations 3/19
Earlier this week McHaglund O’Heel wandered over to Carnegie Hall to hang with the famous Irish fiddler Martin Hayes and The Common Ground Ensemble to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Hayes and the Ensemble have…
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ABT Mozartiana, Nuages, Firebird
The ballerina wasn’t the only one praying during the Mozartiana Preghiera section on Friday the 13th. After what seemed her interminable absence due to a resentful tendon in the foot, we were gratified and…
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ABT’s Othello – “Vintage has it all over new”
That’s one of the advertising tags for the current run of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece Death of a Salesman, first performed in 1949, which opened in previews on Friday night at the Winter Garden Theater.…
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NYCB 2/27–Diamond District Fraudulent Swap
A crime has been committed. New York City Ballet has gone full-frontal Trump with its gaudy, hideous re-design of Madame Karinska’s revered costumes for Balanchine’s Diamonds. What a way to destroy a tradition of…
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The Aurora we’ve been waiting for
After having our hearts broken three years ago when then-soloist Emma Von Enck was inexplicably passed over for casting as Aurora in New York City Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty, we finally emerged from the…