Busy, busy week coming up. Consult your calendars daily.
✅ Tomorrow night, December 17th, marks the premiere performance of the online production company Live Arts Global which you can access at the YouTube channel through December 19th: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBmqDqr7kmEm_iwdKE_20Vg/featured . An idea spawned by Melanie Hamrick, Christine Shevchenko, and Joanna DeFelice, Live Arts Global is sure to help fill the artistic void as we await the reopening of our theaters.
We're slightly confused by the Facebook info that shows the program will be available from tonight December 16 at 5PM Eastern through December 19th at 5PM; but this could make tonight's NYC Blizzard Watch all the more exciting! Here's the lineup:
The Nutcracker Grand Pas de deux
Crystal Serrano & Aran Bell
Choreography / Lev Ivanov
Music / Tchaikovsky
After The Rain
Unity Phelan & Calvin Royal III
Choreography / Christopher Wheeldon
Music / Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt
Romeo and Juliet Balcony Pas de deux
Christine Shevchenko & Aran Bell
Choreography / Kenneth Macmillan
Music / Sergei Prokofiev
On the Subject of Grace
Antonio Douthit-Boyd & Kirven Douthit-Boyd
Choreography / Geoffrey Alexander
Music / Chopin No. 19 in E minor, Op 72, No.1
Flower Festival
Sara Lane & Daniel Ulbricht
Choreography / August Bournonville
Music / Edvard Helsted
Dying Swan
Christine Shevchenko
Choreography / Michel Fokine
Music / Camille Saint- Saens, Carnival des Animaux
The Dying Swan is licensed with kind permission of The Fokine-Estate
Don Quixote Pas de deux
Christine Shevchenko & Julian Mackay
Choreography / Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky
Music / Ludwig Minkus
✅ Coming up on Friday night, December 18th, is the premiere of the Disney+ documentary series On Pointe which follows the goings-on at School of American Ballet. While not free, it's not expensive — about $7 for one month for the whole Disney+ channel which includes some dynamite programing from National Geographic.
6 responses to “observations 12/16”
For anyone that is interested – there is also an interactive “Twitch” chat (going to have to figure that one out) featuring Kathryn Morgan, Lauren Lovette, Megan Fairchild and Ashley Bouder during a livestream of the Wethersfield Nutcracker on the 20th. https://www.nutcrackeratwethersfield.com/stream
For anyone that is interested – there is also an interactive “Twitch” chat (going to have to figure that one out) featuring Kathryn Morgan, Lauren Lovette, Megan Fairchild and Ashley Bouder during a livestream of the Wethersfield Nutcracker on the 20th. https://www.nutcrackeratwethersfield.com/stream
Thanks, Rachel. What an odd thing thing to incorporate into this event. I hope those four confine their comments to intermissions. Don’t think folks would want to listen to their color commentary while trying to watch the performance. “I” “I” “I” “I” “I” “Me” “Me” “Me”. Jeesh, ’tis not the season to talk about oneself.
Thanks, Rachel. What an odd thing thing to incorporate into this event. I hope those four confine their comments to intermissions. Don’t think folks would want to listen to their color commentary while trying to watch the performance. “I” “I” “I” “I” “I” “Me” “Me” “Me”. Jeesh, ’tis not the season to talk about oneself.
Sarah Lane is sublime. Her performance in Flower Festival should be held up against ABT’s The Future Starts Now to act as a neon sign that screams ABT has lost its mind. Why in the world she was let go….there can be no justification. I’m glad I was able to see live performances of Corella, Carreno, Kent, Ananiashvili, Jaffe, etc…and I remember seeing Movado ads featuring dancers from ABT and think how classy, mysterious, alluring they were. None of this overly sexualized, self gratifying art porn that’s being dealt out today like a bunch of free skittles. Such a shame.
Sarah Lane is sublime. Her performance in Flower Festival should be held up against ABT’s The Future Starts Now to act as a neon sign that screams ABT has lost its mind. Why in the world she was let go….there can be no justification. I’m glad I was able to see live performances of Corella, Carreno, Kent, Ananiashvili, Jaffe, etc…and I remember seeing Movado ads featuring dancers from ABT and think how classy, mysterious, alluring they were. None of this overly sexualized, self gratifying art porn that’s being dealt out today like a bunch of free skittles. Such a shame.