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observations 5/11
The irresistible Whipped Cream T-shirts with Mark Ryden designs are ready and waiting for you in the Met Opera Shop – pink version, black version. At $30 each, they are no more expensive than…
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NYCB Spring Gala 5/4
Random sketches to nowhereAlexei Ratmansky’s newest work for New York City Ballet, Odessa, which premiered at the company’s spring gala last night, is set to Leonid Desyatnikov’s Sketches to Sunset. The music was composed 25 years ago…
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Culture Shed update
The Culture Shed (aka The Shed) that is being constructed as part of the mammoth Hudson Yards development on the West Side of Manhattan is progressing impressively. Yesterday Haglund was down at Caffè Via…
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Here and Now festival – 4/25
New York City Ballet used to be called
The House of BalanchineThat’s how the company will be routinely described in the not too distant future if the company maintains its current path. What a disheartening, disappointing, disturbing first evening of the Here and Now…
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NYCB 4/23 matinee
Utterly brilliantJust saying – if that was a final salute to a role yesterday, it was one that the Balletomane Brigade will never forget. To be clear, we have no information to the effect that…
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observations 4-24
Member presale began today for NY City Center's concert production of Brigadoon starring Robert Fairchild, Kelli O'Hare, and Steven Pasquale with choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. Only six performances November 15-19. Public ticket sales begin…