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Sarasota Ballet – A Knight of the British Ballet – 8/8
New York City is a risky place for regional dance companies to visit. First, there is all that stuff (that we hoity-toity New Yorkers delightedly promote) about balletomanes being notoriously picky and some critics…
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observations 8-4
NBC News has posted an article and lovely video interview with Stella Abrera. The video has some rare clips of her dancing, clips we never see from ABT. –––––––––––––––––––– The exquisite, gracious,…
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observations 8-3
Photo from El Pais Marcia Haydée and Julio Bocca meet the press in Montevideo where Marcia is visiting to set her ballet, Carmen, on the Ballet Nacional Sodre. Cranko's original Tatiana is 79 years…
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Lincoln Center Festival
National Ballet of Canada
The Winter’s Tale – 7/30 matineeLast January in a winter’s tale of sorts, Guillaume Côté and Sonia Rodriguez were scheduled to debut in their roles as Leontes and Hermione with the National Ballet of Canada at The Kennedy Center, but,…
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observations 7-30
If you haven't seen National Ballet of Canada's The Winters Tale, rush to get a ticket to one of the final three performances at Lincoln Center. Check back here tonight or tomorrow for Haglund's…
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Attention, mes amis Parisiens
The Frenchman, Alexandre Hammoudi, will be dancing the principal role of Désiré in ABT's Sleeping Beauty on Tuesday, September 6 opposite the exquisite could-be-French-too-if-she-wanted Stella Abrera as Aurora. Hammoudi was born in Paris and…