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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…
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observations 7-25
Beginning this November, José Manuel Carreño will become the Artistic Director of Ballet de Monterrey, a company that includes many Cubans within its roster of forty dancers. Here is merely one of them, Ernesto Mejica,…
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Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival
Lincoln Center and Darlene Love deliver!There are some performers who shouldn’t retire from the stage – Baryshnikov, Jagger, and Darlene Love. Oh my goodness. Did Lincoln Center ever do itself proud last night with its sensational presentation of Darlene…
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Another black eye for ballet
while making America grate againThis is not a political blog. In fact, we go out of our way to avoid national political hot-topics even though they might draw parallels to the dance world and even supply a little…