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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…
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NYCB 5/22 Penultimate pleasures
Well, here we are at the close of another glorious and satisfying chapter. Somewhat like the many who are waltzing across Lincoln Center stages this week in their academic regalia, Megan Fairchild is waltzing…
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NYCB 5/7 Gala Guitar Riff
The See the Music session concluded with Maestro Litton telling the audience to enjoy Balanchine’s Diamonds which was the rest of the program. The orchestra then descended back into the pit in their usual…
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NYCB 5/1 Pas de Pianos
From the ring levels in the theater one gets a bird’s eye view of what is happening in the orchestra pit. Sometimes it’s more interesting than what’s on the stage. Take Friday night, for…