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NYCB – It’s time to bring on the chicks
One month from today, New York City Ballet opens the Fall Season of what is sure to be an extraordinary year. The programing philosophy is a good one this fall: test out all of…
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observations 8/22
No live snakes for Gillian. Later this year when Gillian Murphy dances in Australian Ballet's new production of La Bayadere staged by Houston Ballet's Stanton Welch, she'll have to do it without the live…
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observations 8/16
The good news is that memberships in the 4th Ring Society aka Society NYCB will be renewed again this year. Our members, mostly old geezers and geezerettes on fixed incomes who have been hobbling…
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The fat truth about the skinny in ballet
Every year in early November, the level of cranky among NYCers increases as about 50,000 really, really, really skinny people descend on the city to run in the New York City Marathon. Thousands of…
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ABT in Brisbane, Australia
The Trumpeter Swan Queen in QueenslandOn Friday, August 29th at 7:30pm, the considerably-sized local ballet intelligentsia will get a chance to witness the most majestic, musical, and captivating Odette/Odile in America. The one who defines resplendent, defines luminosity, defines…
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Don Q gets a shot of Red Bull this month
Julio Bocca’s Ballet Nacional Sodre premieres a brand new production of Don Quijote in Montevideo with choreography by Raúl Candal/Silvia Bazilas and designs by Hugo Millán. Our own Maria Riccetto will be making her…