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observations 7/19
A hopelessly crappy news week ends with some great news. Congratulations to Patrick Frenette, Léa Fleytoux, and Fangqi Li on their promotions to Soloists at ABT! High quality promotions every one of them. Susan…
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ABT Swan Lake 7/3 matinee
In addition to promoting Chloe Misseldine to Principal Wednesday at the conclusion of her matinee performance as Odette/Odile, Artistic Director Susan Jaffe should have draped Chloe's shoulders with a black & white PhD…
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ABT fails to learn from its mistakes
Take away the smoke, laser lights, Kabuki makeup, and odd-for-the-sake-of-odd costumes, and what is left of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works are the same old neck rolls, rib rolls, arm rolls, twisting women to…
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ABT @ the Met
Onegin 6/18If there was any question as to whether Lensky simply failed to get a shot off or chose to allow Onegin to kill him during their duel, it wasn’t answered on Tuesday night…
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NYCB 5/14 – Contemporary Choreography I
Tuesday evening’s Contemporary Choreography I program was not the spectacular, uplifting evening that we expected. Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition was originally a hyperkinetic romp of artistry to Mussorgsky’s music…
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NYCB Tonight!
Very much looking forward to hearing Stephen Gosling play this tonight at NYCB: