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NY City Center Hugo Marchand – Artists at the Center 7/23
Sometimes it pays to sit in the cheap seats. Although not literally cheap, but certainly less costly than sitting in the front of the prime orchestra section with the ballet glitterati, the tier seating…
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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…