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Salutes too late
Usually by the time a company comes up with a PR plan for damage control to minimize the negative impact of embarrassing events, it’s already too late. This spring ABT was faced with the…
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Coppelia & Franz are really going to tie the knot
At the conclusion of today's matinee performance of Coppelia, Yuriko Kajiya was, of course, wearing one of her wedding dresses. She has several. Wedding dresses, that is. She has her Coppelia wedding dress and…
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observations 7/5
It is astonishing to watch Kevin McKenzie stand on stage cheering, smiling, and laughing as one supreme talent after another walks out on him because he failed to give them the opportunities and recognition…
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UIEX: ABT next schmyear
ABT's 75th anniversary year looks as if it will be as tired as any other year – and more so now that important, sparkling talent has defected for lack of opportunities at this company…
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ABT 7/3
Radetsky marches onThe last time Sascha Radetsky quit ABT in 2008, he went out in a storm of thunder and lightning and was tossed into the wash by the menacing Wilis. When the unusually bright spotlight…
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A promotion of predictably poor taste
Kevin McKenzie’s poor taste has become as predictable as the food poisoning at Atomic Wings. His recent castings of the unprepossessing Isabella Boylston in Petipa classics have been the early signs of a noxious…