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NYCB Fall Gala 9/20
There is only now… just a little too gimmicky and out-of-context for NYCB's marketing department to use to promote new and often not great choreography. They can do better than that. There is only now. There was…
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Killing time while waiting
for the NYCB season to begin…
The best shakes in Manhattan this weekendare at The New York Coffee Festival at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue between 25th & 26th Streets. The festival continues tomorrow morning beginning at 10AM. Haglund recommends arriving no later than…
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observations 9-16
The financial auditors for the Paris Opera Ballet have slapped the company's hands for excessive spending on perks for Benjamin Millepied and other of its directors. Chauffeurs, cars, and fat lunches were part of…
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Toot-a-loo until next time
Today we learned that Diana Vishneva will give a farewell performance to American Ballet Theatre this June with two performances of Cranko's Onegin opposite Marcelo Gomes. She has for the past several years insisted…
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Souvenirs de Paris
Our Stella Abrera balancing on the clam shell (and releasing her partner's hand exactly on the musical cue) in Sleeping Beauty Act II courtesy of a perfect set-up by our dashing Alex Hammoudi. We…
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observations 9-9
The London casting for Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris has been announced. Madame Baurel will be played by none other than → → → → Who among us dares to admit being old…