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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…
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NYCB Sleeping Beauty
When Good meets Evil at the ballet, usually Good wins out. But Wednesday night, Ashley Hod’s Carabosse nearly ran away with the show until she went up in smoke & sparklers after witnessing a…
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NYCB – The King’s thing is tiny
In Alexei Ratmansky’s terrific new ballet, The Naked King, which premiered Thursday evening at New York City Ballet, the King’s thing is so tiny that it got lost behind the tiniest fig leaf. No…
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NYCB 1/29 & 1/30
In case some of you titology-oriented H.H. readers were theorizing about the paratextual elements in Justin Peck’s new ballet The Wind-Up and whether the title could possibly refer to Peck “winding up” his tenure…
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NYCB 1/20 “Tradition is the future”
“Tradition is the future” was the spirit inhabiting the opening performance of New York city Ballet’s winter season last evening.
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Nut Nostalgia
In This World of Tomorrow, which just completed its limited run at The Shed last Sunday, Tom Hanks’ character was a scientist who explored the future by re-visiting the past over and over again…