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Lincoln Center Festival
Insurgents, a Russian specialtyWhen the Bolshoi Ballet last brought Spartacus to the Metropolitan Opera House in July 2005, they draped Lincoln Center with billboard-sized hanging posters that were fierce red, evil black, and conquering gold. There was…
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Where things stand
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Lincoln Center Festival
Bolshoi Ballet – Don Quixote – 7/22Tuesday night’s Playbill cover looked more like an issue of the quarterly publication, Ballet Review, with its classic black and white photo of Maria Alexandrova as Kitri. Here the emphatic beauty of the exact…
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Congratulations to Angel Corella and PA Ballet
It's terrific to hear that Angel is the new Artistic Director at Pennsylvania Ballet. Wow. Wow. Wow. Can't wait to use the Amtrak senior pass to go down to Philly to experience a dose…
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observations 7/21
Fathom Events will host five cinema presentations of The Royal Ballet in the coming season, four of which will be live-streams. Manon on Thursday, Oct. 16th (Nunez & Bonelli)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on Tuesday,…
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Lincoln Center Festival
Bolshoi’s Tiger Paws in Swan Lake 7/18Perhaps we can wonder whether the all-Grigorovich content for the Bolshoi Ballet’s current tour was arranged during the post-Filin trauma when Grigorovich supporters (a.k.a. anti-Filin, anti-progressives) saw a potential opportunity for restructuring influence. In…