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ABT 6/30
Golden Sleeping BeautyThere is an abundance of gold in Alexei Ratmansky’s production of Sleeping Beauty. Many if not most of the court costumes designed by Richard Hudson flaunt the excess of wealth (without the underlying stigma…
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observations 6-28
It's almost here. We certainly have been patient all these years. After starring in a dozen or so performances of Aurora in the Royal New Zealand Ballet's acclaimed production, our Stella Abrera finally gets…
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ABT Romeo and Juliet 6/23
Unions shattered; plunging into despair, happilyIt was an evening of unions shattered. No one could have predicted such a disastrous outcome of a commitment so strong that it was valued more than life itself. CNN Reporter: Mr. Shakespeare, what say…
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ABT – Romeo and Juliet 6/21
Cultures collide. Battles ensue. Love springs from hate. Innocents die. And so it goes… And so it went Tuesday night when Diana Vishneva's Juliet was sucked into the vortex of tragedy with Marcelo Gomes’…
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Divine dives
Just sayin', there are Sleeping Beauty lessons to be learned from this 41 second vid of the Royal Ballet's lovely Lauren Cuthbertson and the cokehead who threw away his career. She possesses such stunning…
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ABT 6/13
Swan Lake stokes the famished crowdThe rooster may have laid a big egg last week, but this week the swans are a-swimming with smooth grace. ABT opened its week of Swan Lakes with a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer performance starring Gillian Murphy…