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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:
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NYCB Spring Gala 5/2
Gimmicks and GownsNew York City Ballet galas are never about good taste. Wear all your jewelry, find a dress that borders on ostentatious, judge everyone’s state of thinness — that’s what they’re about. So…
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NYCB 4/26
Dances at a Gathering & Brahms-Schoenberg QuartetProperly hydrating before and during Robbins' long piano ballet, Dances at a Gathering, is important for the professional — balletomane, that is. The ballet may only be 60+ minutes long, but on Friday…