Angel Corella has announced these promotions at Pennsylvania Ballet:
Zecheng Liang, to Principal Dancer
Yuka Iseda, Albert Gordon and Nayara Lopes to First Soloists
Kathryn Manger, Ashton Roxander and Peter Weil to Soloists
Etienne Diaz, Sydney Dolan, Russell Ducker, Thays Golz, Alexander Heier and So Jung Shin to Demi Soloists
This represents a realignment of levels with the addition of First Soloist and Demi Soloist ranks.
The 2019-2020 season promises to be one of the company's most ambitious to date under Corella: Don Quixote; a program of three world premieres; a brand new La Bayadere; a mixed rep program that includes Stanton Welch's Clear, Suspended in Time by Corella, Radev, and Drucker which was originally made for Barcelona Ballet, and a new Neenan piece; a humongous Balanchine program of Ballet Imperial, Who Cares, and Symphony in C; and of course Balanchine's Nutcracker.
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On June 1st at 8:00 p.m. Symphony Space will screen the Nureyev documentary which was recently shown at Landmark Cinemas. While there are irritating things about it, there are also some incredible clips, including the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet with Fonteyn in which Nureyev invests himself like few, if any, other dancers. Seeing this PdD on a big screen is well worth sitting through what precedes it.
8 responses to “observations 5/14”
I drove to see PA Ballet do Giselle in March (16th) and it was fantastic! Bravo to Corella for elevating the company to a great standard that will surely be able to compete against ABT and NYC Ballet if he stays the course.
I drove to see PA Ballet do Giselle in March (16th) and it was fantastic! Bravo to Corella for elevating the company to a great standard that will surely be able to compete against ABT and NYC Ballet if he stays the course.
I totally agree. Would like to see them on a big stage in New York the next time they visit. I think that right now they could easily take any one of their big programs to the opera house stage at Kennedy Center and be a smash hit — so long as they pick the right time (non-election week, non-holiday, non-blizzard).
I totally agree. Would like to see them on a big stage in New York the next time they visit. I think that right now they could easily take any one of their big programs to the opera house stage at Kennedy Center and be a smash hit — so long as they pick the right time (non-election week, non-holiday, non-blizzard).
Haglund, don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Morris’ documentary “Nureyev” will begin a two week run at Film Forum on Houston Street, beginning Friday, June 7. This will be great opportunity for those of us unable to attend the June 1 showing. Film Forum will have five shows a day!
https://filmforum.org/film/nureyev
Haglund, don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Morris’ documentary “Nureyev” will begin a two week run at Film Forum on Houston Street, beginning Friday, June 7. This will be great opportunity for those of us unable to attend the June 1 showing. Film Forum will have five shows a day!
https://filmforum.org/film/nureyev
Thanks for the info and the link!
Thanks for the info and the link!