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observations 1-31
Thanks to CMM for alerting us to the new casting for the premiere performances of Ratmansky's Whipped Cream in Costa Mesa in March. Stella Abrera, David Hallberg, Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin will star…
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ABT – The Kennedy Center
Swan Lake 1/29 matineeWashington DC – This is a town where conspiracies – real and imagined – abound. Today at the Kennedy Center (whose name is this country’s surname most laden with conspiracy theories), the town’s inhabitants…
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If we wish for it, it will come . . .
and it IS!!! (Just not to NY.) Our nearly decade long campaign of wishful thinking is about to pay off. Houston Ballet will become the first American company to present Kenneth MacMillan's masterpiece Mayerling.…
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NYCB – 1/28 matinee
We're catching up on a few observations before reluctantly leaving this beloved sanctuary city for DC tomorrow to see the brand new Real McCOO in the early matinee – that’s the Real McCoy Odette/Odile,…
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NYC Ballet 1/26
Pop on pointe & in sneakers; Crystal Pepsi in the New Age of alternative bubbly balletWho remembers Crystal Pepsi? Not many. More importantly, who remembers what it tasted like? Fewer. It never was the “clear alternative” to what everyone was drinking. It was a bad idea that a great…
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New York City Ballet 1/22
Finishing the week with novices and expertsNew York City Ballet’s Winter Season Week One concluded on Sunday, George Balanchine’s birthday, with an interesting choice of All-Stravinsky programing that featured (1) young novices who are advancing through the company’s feeder school,…