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Merit Matters
American Ballet Theatre seems to be having its own democratic socialist movement, and the citizenry is going bananas with joy. The summer season, which ends today, has seen a great wealth of roles distributed…
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ABT’s Sylvia
During ABT’s abbreviated run of Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia last week, the leafy woodlands included varying strengths of timber. Overall, the ballet did not compare favorably with last year’s presentations. However, there were strong performances that we…
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ABT Onegin & Don Quixote
Drama or comedy? We’ll take both, thank you. The fact that American Ballet Theatre can now pull off a rip-roaring successful run of John Cranko’s Onegin without a Ferri or Vishneva or Gomes or…
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ABT’s Swan Lake at The Met
It’s like when you’ve been driving the old Toyota around since 2000 and it just hit 321,000 miles. There’s rust on the bumper but the vehicle gets you where you need to go so…
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observations 6/10
So why did the School of American Ballet choose Balanchine’s frothy “Who Cares” to perform at its spring workshop performance? Was it because it wanted its female adolescent students to act out as sexy…
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6/4 – Mary, Queen of Scots
History is always presented with a viewpoint or two. Imagine if Myrta were the narrator at our performance of Giselle. We’ve already read all the news accounts, watched Scott Pelley’s scorching segment about Myrta…