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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…
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NYCB 4/18
Ave Maria!What is there left to do but hail Maria Kowroski after one of her most glorious adagios in Symphony in C last evening as NYC Ballet opened its spring season with a blessed all-Balanchine…
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YAGP Honors Julio Bocca at Lincoln Center 4/14
It Was A Good FridayLiterally. YAGP’s 2017 Tribute to a Dance Legend honored Julio Bocca, the beloved star of ABT for twenty years who is now Artistic Director of Uruguay’s national company SODRE which he has buffed…
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Ruthie
Ruthie didn't miss very many of Julio Bocca's performances during his decades with ABT. Haglund became fast friends with her when we kept showing up in the same side box at the Met Opera…