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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…
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observations 7-16
Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival begins next week. On Saturday (7/23) Dance Theatre of Harlem company & school will perform on the Hearst Plaza (by the reflecting pool) at 2:00pm. Then at 7:30pm…
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Opening preview performance
CATS – The new life beginsHaglund used to walk by the Winter Garden Theater and wonder when in the heck that CATS musical would close. He’d seen it a few times over its 18 year run, knew a few…
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No, no, no Melanie
One of Haglund's favorite ballerinas, Melanie Hamrick, has been seeded by Mick Jagger, so says London's Guardian and Page Six of the NY Post. Even though her potential was never even close to being…